Storm child Author Surname:Robotham

Storm child Author Surname:RobothamThe most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away, ever since she was held prisoner as a child a child whose rescue captured hearts and headlines. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven's mission is to guide her to something near normality. But today, on a Lincolnshire beach, seventeen bodies wash up in front of them. There is only one survivor, with two women still missing. And Evie's nightmares come roaring back. Whatever happened all

from the mass suicide of Jonestown in 1979 to the sarin attack in the Tokyo metro system

For seven years

One night less than two weeks before Christmas

As far as her friends and family knew

With little sympathy from a local population

But in a closed rural community

come to collect on Joanna as payment for a long-overdue blood debt

it is left to Steve to save himself and what's left of their farming community

A chance meeting with the manager of The Great Hippopotamus Hotel leads the much-admired and traditionally-built Precious Ramotswe to investigate what is going wrong with this previously successful country hotel

Yet no sooner has he got started than his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out

the outcome could be a bloody conflict

she not only refuses to help