Gail Walton's life has seemed perfect until now - her marriage to Jack too fulfilling to lure her into a career; her relationship with her two beautiful daughters a constant joy. But with one terrible, random act of violence, her world collapses. Her younger child, all sunshine and light, is murdered, left in the neighbourhood park where she had played for most of her six years. In her grief, Gail shuts out her teenage daughter, her parents, her friends - and even her husband.
She becomes obsessed with the police investigation and frustrated when their 'leads' lead nowhere. Finally, she decides to track her daughter's killer on her own. Searching for the slender, blond, young man seen fleeing the park that awful day, she deliberately sets herself up as a decoy, hitchhiking at night, roaming the dangerous sections of the city. Then feeling she is close to success, she buys a gun . . .
