What Was Lost

Catherine O'Flynn

Pint sized detective Kate Meaney goes missing in a huge shopping centre and the echoes of love and loss resonating in other lives 20 years down the line. All the tension of an unsolved mystery but shopaholics be warned - the idea of all those hidden corridors amongst twelve miles of concrete feels definitely spooky!

Extract

He never expected to see anything on the CCTV. No one ever did on the night shift.
He'd been looking at the same monitor screens for the past thirteen years. When he closed his eyes he could still see all the empty corridors and locked doors in soft grey-scale tones. Sometimes he thought maybe they were just flickering photographs - still lives that would never change. But then she appeared in the middle of the night and he never thought that again.

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