RATING: GOOD
SPOILERS!!!
Kate's intuition proves to be right, and Aleah's death is connected to the death of Tracy Moore. The boy who goes missing is also found dead. The link that Kate finds is the deaths of Tracy Moore and the suicide of Paul Hirst, who was bullied during the miners' strike for being a scab. Aleah's stepfather's sisters were the ones to bully Tracy and they pushed her to go into the shaft where she died. And Callum's grandfather was part of the strikers who pushed Paul Hirst to commit suicide.
I already guessed who the killer is, and Kate discovers that it is Paul Hirst's son, who is the officer who was in the two crime scenes and who has tried to befriend her. It is Drew, and when the police go to pick him up, he is not there. Kate learns that her son seems to have gone missing, and they eventually discover that Drew has kidnapped him.
Kate then remembers the conversation she had with him about the past, and he mentioned how some boys mocked him and locked him in the boiler room. He wetted himself and from then he was called pisspants. Kate knows where he has taken her son, so she and Hollis go there where they confront him. Ben, Kate's son, is unconscious, and Kate manages to make Drew tell her the reason why he went after Ben. Drew claims that like Kate herself, he was bullied because his father was a scab and the reason why Paul had to work is that Tracy was disabled and they needed the money to pay for the doctor. Nobody understood that and they were despised in the town, and unlike him Kate and her family could leave.
Kate stands before Drew Digby and cries for Hollis to get Ben out of him, and then Drew attacks and stabs her. Yet, the police come and take the man. Thankfully, Kate recovers as the knife did not touch any vital organs.
The book was interesting, but I guessed who the killer was quite early on.
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