Beneath These Stones

Twelve-year-old Tammy Franklin has learnt too much about death, too quickly. Twenty months ago she lost her mother to a long illness, and now the body of the woman her father married in a misguided attempt to replace his wife has been found on a railway embankment adjacent to the Franklin farm. And this time the death is murder - Sonia Franklin has been stabbed. Tammy's father is suspect number one in the mind of Inspector Pearce, to whom Superintendent Markby is determined to delegate the case. But the investigation is destined to be far more complex than Markby ever envisaged...