Plotted in Cornwall Book

Painter and photographer Rose Trevelyan, has been commissioned to paint the portraits of two sisters in a remote farmhouse on Bodmin Moor. Rose's curiosity is aroused when she hears, through a talented young pupil she teaches at evening classes, that the sisters might possibly have something to hide. When she also learns that two of the pupils' relatives have disappeared Rose starts to wonder whether one of the missing pair may have been murdered. DI Jack Pearce refuses to take her seriously but Rose carries on regardless - and uncovers secrets her protege's family would rather she had left alone.