Blood Atonement

the long version

Katie Drake was an affluent, single mother living in Queen's Park &8211; until someone cut her throat and tore out her tongue. Worst still, the killer has abducted her fourteen-year-old daughter Naomi.Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster quickly sees chilling parallels to the disappearance - presumed murder - of teenager Deborah Chilton three years earlier. With hopes fading of finding Naomi alive, he calls on genealogist Nigel Barnes to piece together the links between the families of the two girls.The trail leads Nigel back to 1890, when a young couple arrived from America. A husband and wife fleeing a terrible crime in their past, and harbouring a secret that's now having bloody repercussions in the present...