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Random Acts of Unkindness

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When her teenage son disappears, Detective Sergeant Jan Pearce is pulled between her own search and the demands of her job. Her colleagues assume the boy has simply run away, leaving Jan to chase answers on her own. At the same time she is working alongside her partner to bring down a local crime boss, and she begins to suspect he may have some link to her son's vanishing.

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Following a lead to an isolated property, she finds two bodies rather than Aiden. One of the dead men had also lost a child years earlier, and as she digs into that old case, Jan finds herself tangled in a mystery that reaches back decades and echoes one of England's most infamous crime sagas.

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