Nothing but Trouble

Roberta Kray

In 1998 a gang of ten year-old girls spends just another day roaming the East End streets. Bored and without money they shoplift for the thrill as well as the cash. Passing their spoils onto a fence the girls soon need another distraction. And as they come to the quiet home of Donald Peck the local weirdo their ringleader Paige decides it's time to try thieving on a much bigger scale. Minnie the smallest and weakest member of the gang is pushed through an open window into the weirdo's deserted flat so she can open the front door for the others. But the minutes pass and the door never opens. Two days later Minnie's small body is found under Donald Peck's bed.

Fourteen years later private investigator Harry Lind is forced to take a closer look at the case that put Peck behind bars for Minnie's murder. The surviving girls now grown women are suddenly receiving death threats and warnings never to speak a word about what happened that day. Peck always protested his innocence and hung himself after being jailed. With a gut instinct that something sinister is going on - and that it would make for a great story - journalist Jessica Vaughan is ready to risk her own safety by digging deeper. She and Lind have an interesting past of their own but for now they need to find out just what really happened on that dark day before another member of the gang is in serious trouble.