Book excerpt: Max Pressland, an antiques celebrity with a dodgy past, disappears while recording his television quiz show in Norwich. Anxious to avoid an embarrassing scandal, his mistress calls ex-policewoman turned private investigator Charli Dawson to track him down before the story breaks to the media.Suspicion falls on a local man with an obsession for collecting macabre antiques and crime memorabilia, but Charli soon discovers that he's not the only person with good reason to harm Pressland.As she struggles for clues to his whereabouts, it becomes evident that this is not a straightforward missing persons case.