Goodbye Holly Jane

Something terrible happened long ago in the old Tyler house high on the Yorkshire Moors but in the early 1960s twelve year old Cordy Sullivan and her friends often play in the abandoned building, leaving notes for each other in its crumbling brickwork and making up stories about the rust stains in the bath and the empty swing near the twisted thorn tree. Then newcomers move in and Cordy meets the enchanting Fay and wonderful Fred, whose care of their children Holly Jane and Edward is in sharp contrast to Cordy's severe upbringing, where sister Susan is quite obviously the family's favourite.

Yet nothing and nobody at the house or in the village below are quite what they seem and when Cordy's school friends begin to disappear she must fight to preserve her loyalties and use her wits to keep the secrets she holds against the relentless probing of her parents and the police.

Against a background of growing fear and suspicion the truth is turned on it's head and a tale that began long ago is eventually linked to events which reach their terrifying climax and change Cordy's life forever.