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The body of a twelve-year-old girl is discovered on the grounds of an exclusive school, and a motorist is killed when his car skids off the road and lands in a creek bed. It’s definitely the wrong weekend for Detective Sergeant Timothy Wallace to be left in charge of Loworth Police Station! His boss thinks it’s a waste of public money to investigate either of the incidents because both deaths are obviously accidental. But Tim is not convinced. He learns that 15 years earlier, the school’s assistant gardener disappeared without a trace, and a letter reveals that the deceased motorist was guarding a dark secret, a secret that mirrors a tragedy suffered by Tim’s closest friend. When Tim tries to uncover a link between the gardener’s disappearance and the dead girl, someone attempts to kill him, and it starts to look like the school’s curriculum includes reading, writing and murder.