Weeping Angels

A gripping New Zealand thriller about buried secrets, a devastating crash and a past that refuses to stay hidden.
‘No one will invest in a business focused on family violence – it’s the opposite of sexy.’ Lauren Brown, owner of Weeping Angels, smiled. ‘Maybe to men.’Business is booming for Weeping Angels – an agency that helps victims of family violence obtain protection orders. Lauren, who ambitiously wants to fix the justice system, contacts journalist Grace (‘Ace’) Marks to increase pressure on the government. A woman who obsessively guards her privacy and her past, Lauren knows she needs to step out of the shadows where she has lived her entire life.When Lauren disappears after visiting a friend, and the police list her as ‘just another’ missing person, a mystified Grace investigates. But who is Lauren? Is that her real name? Why does nobody know where she lives? And why doesn’t she exist outside Weeping Angels?What sinister forces are at work in her disappearance? Have they come from her work combating family violence or has her past reached out from the shadows?