Sight Unseen

Chief Inspector George Sharp never quite believed the serial pedophile who confessed to the 1981 murder of a seven-year-old girl and the abduction of her infant sister in eerie Avebury, England. (The ancient city is home to massive remnants of a neolithic stone circle that's both older and larger than the more famous Stonehenge.) Sharp, now retired, has his dormant skepticism revived some 20 years after the fact when he receives a mysterious letter "signed" by eighteenth-century polemicist Junius claiming, in no uncertain terms, that he nabbed the wrong man. Sharp is soon back in touch with David Umber, a Junius scholar and one of three witnesses on that fateful day. As it happened, the crime scene was also where David met his future wife, Sally, the nanny responsible for bringing the two girls--and their older brother--to the historic site. Sally was forever traumatized by the horrendous turn of events, and David remains haunted by her subsequent suicide--or might she have been murdered? Together and separately, David and Detective Sharp pursue a slew of shifty characters, creeping ever closer to the truth...