Backlash
(2012)
Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in Hackney, a white van is being driven erratically. When the police pull over the driver to question him, they discover the body of a young woman.
A case done and dusted? Five years earlier, a 13-year-old girl disappeared in broad daylight on a busy London street. DCS James Langton headed the investigation and left no stone unturned. The fact that case was not solved has haunted him ever since. The enquiry has opened up again but, unable to lead it due to ill health, Langton brings in DCI Anna Travis.
Meanwhile the murder team begins the laborious task of verifying the details of the confessions and uncovering the identity of the second victim. And then the suspect changes his story. They know they have a murderer in custody – but is he a serial killer or just a compulsive liar? –