Winner of Best Crime Fiction at the 2024 National Indie Excellence AwardsFinalist for the 2024 Feathered Quill Award for Best Mystery ThrillerDebby Morris mother of two goes to a Christmas party at the historic Hollyhock Manor in Marlow and never comes home.Her phone handbag and Santas elf hat are found in a park near the River Thames. The police issue a nationwide search but Debby is not found.Planned disappearance or something more sinisterThen Debbys body still in her elf costume is discovered five miles downstream from where she disappeared.But the circumstances around Debbys death are murkier than the Thames in which she was found.Detective Rob Miller is pulled from compassionate leave and put in charge. Hes still reeling from his last botched case and now all eyes are on him waiting to see if hell crack.As if saving his career isnt enough Rob and his team are now in a race against time to bring an ingenious killer to justice.