The love of money is the root of all evil. And financial investigator Rose Bennett knows that sometimes it leads to murder …
Has bank clerk Pandora Mitchell been abducted? Or did someone want to silence her before she could tell Rose Bennett what she knew?
The sleepy Yorkshire town of Market Melbourne is in the midst of a summer heatwave when trainee bank clerk Pandora disappears. The event shouldn’t be more to Rose than a headline in the local newspaper. Except that Rose has just arrived from London to investigate a case of internal fraud at the bank where Pandora works, and the missing girl holds information that is vital to her inquiry.
Rose doesn’t believe in co-incidence. She thinks that someone at the branch wanted to silence Pandora, and as word spreads that Rose is assisting DI George Mulligan to investigate the girl’s disappearance, colleagues at the bank begin to close ranks against her.
But Rose would value a young girl’s life above financial losses every day of the week. There’s more at stake now than money, and Rose Bennett doesn’t scare that easily …
*Previously published under the title Collusion