The Foss Remembers
Nothing that goes into the water is ever lost
A city built on history. A secret buried beneath it.
For six years, Louise Greenwood has lived with the belief that Dr Timothy Barnes, her former mentor, chose to leave York without a word. Then the River Foss gives up a secret the city has kept for far too long: Barnes’s car, trapped beneath the mud since the night he disappeared.
The discovery unsettles everything Louise thought she knew. Among the remains are notes pointing towards a prestigious new development, and towards someone determined to ensure that Barnes’s final discovery stays hidden.
As Louise follows the trail through York’s respectable institutions and carefully guarded histories, she risks more than her standing as an academic. The truth may cost her the career she has built, and place her in danger from people who cannot afford to let the past surface.
In York, history is never entirely buried. Sometimes, the river brings it back.