Charlie has grown up with betrayal and lies - ever since her mother left her, her dad and her brother, Brad, to fend for themselves. Brad's always been a handful, in and out of trouble with the law, but it's usually just silly stuff, messing about. Not this time, now he's in real trouble. Throwing stones off a motorway bridge, killing a motorist...It's just not Brad's style. So when he confesses, Charlie starts an investigation of her own. But as she searches for the truth, she unearths a bigger more frightening crime, and discovers things about her brother, his best friend Denny, and her long-lost mother, that change her life for ever. In the end, trying to prove her brother is not guilty causes her to lose her own innocence, for good...

 

There are 29 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Hachette Children's Group .

Peter Kent has written and illustrated over 50 fiction and non fiction books and has won awards in the Netherlands and the UK including The Scientific American Young Readers Book Award (1998) and American National Council of Social Studies Award (1998). He lives in Norwich