- When the body of a missing schoolgirl is discovered in a wood, Gently and Bacchus are thrown into the new world of pop and media celebrity.
- After missing teenager Mary Claverton is found murdered her parents tell Gently they believe she was about to run off with an older boyfriend. Married music teacher Mr Nugent is mentioned but he has an alibi for the murder. Mary and her school-friends were regular audience members at 'Upside Down', a local pop music TV show, hosted by the oily Tony, who also briefly met Mary when he tried to hit on her and was rejected. Another suspect is headmaster Peter Holdaway, father of Mary's best friend, who had an affair with another, literary-minded, school-girl years earlier and fathered a child. One of the suspects makes a confession but Gently believes that this is to protect the real killer.—don @ minifie-1
- DCI Gently and DS Bacchus investigate the murder of 17 year-old Mary Claverton whose remains are found in Pinnock Woods. The girl had been suffocated but her body was gently placed in a shallow grave with her arms crossed. Mary had not been seen since the Friday night she was to go to a dance with her best friend, Hazel Holdoway. She never showed up at the bus stop where they would normally have met. Mary was an exceptionally bright student with great promise according to Hazel's father, Peter Holdaway, who was also her English teacher. Mary's home life was not a happy one and her father in particular is something of a brute. Several suspects have lied to the police and Gently even manages to get a confession from one of them but he soon realizes the answer lies elsewhere.—garykmcd
- Secretly pregnant schoolgirl Mary Claverton's corpse is found suffocated in the woods. She was the promising star in Durham suburb Pinnock Woods English and music teachers Peter Holdaway and David Nugent's honors program, likely to be accepted in Oxbridge. Mary went missing after a wild weekend with classmate buddies Hazel Holdaway and Shelley Marshall, getting noticed and selected as foxy partner for outdated TV pop music show host Tony, who deeply resents his producer for the idea. Gently and Bacchus suspect abuse both by Mary's laborer father Joe and at school.—KGF Vissers
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