Closing the distance

the long version

"I want you to find someone, " Deborah said. "And who would that be?" I asked. "Me", she said. "I want you to find me." The distinction between right and wrong is embedded deep in Bristol private eye Jack Shepherd. Deborah Thorne employs Shepherd to find her and promptly disappears. Who is she hiding from? Then a body surfaces in the mud of the Severn Estuary and is identified as Deborah's therapist and a former client of Shepherd. Suddenly the search takes a much darker turn, sucking him into a sinister and brutal vortex which might see him pay the biggest price of all."--Publisher description.