Title: Objects of Desire - CJ Emerson - book
Summary :
Jess Chadwick, a former rocker turned social worker, thought she could escape her burdensome past by leaving London to settle in an idyllic farmhouse in the Welsh Marches. But the violence of her profession catches up with her the day a ten-year-old boy whose case she followed a few months earlier is found dead, murdered, in the forest. Two seasoned police officers take charge of the investigation: Inspector John Pelham and Sergeant Pav Randharwal, a young woman of exotic beauty who is openly gay. Following the mysterious disappearance of a little girl, they soon make a horrific discovery in an isolated barn. At the same time, Jess is the target of a series of personal attacks that gradually push her onto the side of the victims and shake the very foundations of her identity. Only a terrifying dive into the past can allow her to save the children in danger... and, among them, the daughter she abandoned sixteen years earlier.
