num_pages: 474
description: Something whistling through the door behind her caused her to turn. A shadow spread across the opening. She clasped a hand to her mouth stilling the fear that was rising. The menacing shadow was followed by a face that sent a cold shiver down her spineWhen the call comes in about Lucy a seventeen-year-old girl murdered after the secret party she held in her parents home Detective Lottie Parker is first on the scene. As she picks her way through the smashed glasses and the blood spatter on the perfect cream carpet she is horrified to see Lucys angelic face silvery-blue eyes forever closed.As Lottie breaks the news to Lucys heartbroken parents and the devastated partygoers she discovers that hours before her death Lucy had revealed a terrible secret about her friend Hannah. And when Lottie finds Lucys bloodstained clothing hidden in Hannahs bedroom she has no option but to bring the shy frightened girl into custody.But Hannah claims to have no memory of the night Lucy died and Lottie begins to question her guilt. Then a fifteen-year-old boy who also attended the party is pulled from the canal. And as Lottie investigates she discovers something shocking. Her own son Sean was at the party. Why did he lie to her? Is her beloved child a witness or a suspect or is he now in the killers sights?
language: English
title: The Guilty Girl
publisher: Bookouture