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Ben Harper, a brilliant investigative journalist, is assigned a piece that weighs heavily on his heart. The assignment forces him to revisit a disturbing event from the past, a tragedy that shook the entire nation and directly affected his family. Twenty years have passed since the brutal murder of fourteen-year-old Nick Harper and his friend in the quiet town of Haddley, a suburb of London along the Thames, at the hands of two peers, for no apparent reason. At the time, Nick's younger brother, Ben, was just a child. The tragedy shattered his life and, inevitably, that of his mother, who took her own life ten years later. The devastation of his family did not prevent Ben from rising, fighting, and excelling in his work. Can he really back out now that the people closest to him are at the center of his new investigation? Will he be able to overcome the emotions and pain resurfacing as he retraces those tragic events and gives voice to the many doubts? In Haddley, with the support of his neighbors, Ben begins a journey into the past. A journey full of discoveries and opaque truths, a crescendo of suspicions that something has been kept hidden for all those years... Ben does not yet know, but in Haddley, nothing and no one is as they seem. Everyone has a secret. And someone is willing to do anything to keep the truth buried.