THE SEARCH OF THE ROAD revealed nothing – Mitchell and Melissa made it as far as the church and the pub, which faced one another across the road, without finding anything to suggest that Lucy Goulding had ever been that way – so they returned to the field, where they hit pay-dirt, at least Mitchell did.
Mitchell had gone about a hundred and fifty yards, when he spotted something up ahead in the narrow strip of scrub grass that grew alongside the wall. He hurried forwards and dropped to his knees the moment he reached the object he had seen - it was a book, one of several that were scattered over half a dozen feet. He was about to pick up the nearest of the books to take a closer look at it, when he saw the name on the cover – Zack Wild; a quick glance at the other books revealed that they
