内容简介：
Alan Tilley, a thirty-one-year-old photographer living in London, has a dark secret that he has kept hidden from friends and family for fifteen years. As a youth, while on holiday in Scotland, he discovered the body of a murdered young girl. In a panic, instead of informing authorities, he fled the scene, telling no one. After years of guilt and remorse over his behavior, he reveals his secret to a close friend. This confession frees him from an emotional prison to begin a search for her killer, a quest that takes him to California and into a world of moneyed society, gutter journalism and those who kill out of greed and revenge. His quest ends where it beganaon an isolated beach in Scotland.