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Book Synopsis''Whitehouse is a skilful, attentive writer''
The GuardianBODY FOUND AT MOSELEY BOG IS KEY WITNESS IN SHOCKING CASE When 18-year-old Ben Renshaw is found dead in ancient city woodland, DCI Robin Lyons finds herself at the heart of one of the most contentious cases in Birmingham''s recent history.
The previous summer, at a house party spun out of control, Renshaw and his best friend Will Laurimore witnessed Alistair Heywood, son of a rich and influential local family, commit an act of shocking violence against a classmate. Their testimony resulted in Heywood''s conviction - but only after a sustained and vicious intimidation campaign.
Is Ben''s murder now an act of vengeance from the powerful Heywood family or the beginning of a bloody new chapter that will claim lives on all sides? Or is the explanation - as the Heywoods claim - something entirely different?
To find out, Robin will have to negotiate the city'
