George Gently

Gently and Bacchus investigate the supposedly accidental death of "China," who was one of the inspector's ex-informants and an old friend.

After the body of a missing teenager is found in a shallow grave, Gently and Bacchus quickly zero in on her relationship with two men: her schoolteacher and her violent, short-tempered father. The detectives enter a confusing new world of pop culture as they try to separate fact from fantasy in the young woman's life, and in the process discover others who might have had a motive to kill.