But can she guide Talitha through the gruelling interrogations and convince her to pull back on her bad attitude, which is only making her situation worse? With the prosecution using Talitha’s gender, privilege and lack of empathy as a weapon against her, Cleo will have to find some way to to help her client fight her increasingly tight corner. It falls to Cleo Roberts, the duty solicitor on call on the night of Hannah’s disappearance, to construct a robust defence in the face of a hostile police force and a baying public who desperately want a head on a plate.
The investigating officer, DI Paula Cassidy, is convinced she’s got her woman, but the crown prosecutor wants this done by the book. The chief suspect is dislikable rich girl Talitha Campbell, whose attitude to her missing fellow college student is callous to say the least. Hanna, a working-class student, has gone missing.
