Angels Passing

Why did fourteen-year-old Helen Bassam fall to her death from a tower block ? A gesture of despair? Or does the blurred, shadowy figure of a young boy captured on CCTV have a role in the tragedy? DI Joe Faraday is on the case, but almost before he gets started he is fighting for resources. The body of a small-time drug dealer is found hanging from a tree and the head of the Major Crime Team pulls in all the manpower he can get. Faraday plunges into Portsmouth's bleak netherworld of wrecked families and children cast adrift in a society too fragmented to care. But as he tracks down the ten-year-old boy who may hold the key to Helen's death, he is faced with a crisis much closer to home...