''If you''re not a fan yet, why not?'' VAL MCDERMID ''A superb storyteller'' PETER MAY A BIZARRE DISCOVERY An unidentified corpse is found in a freezer in the garage of an unoccupied house. DS Alexandra Cupidi is handed a case that is made even colder by no-one seeming to know or care whose body it is. A HISTORIC CRIME It becomes clear there is a connection between the crime and a skeleton uncovered underneath a housing development of Trevor Grey, a boy who went missing twenty five years earlier. A BURIED LIFE Digging deep into secrets that have long been concealed brings Cupidi to face a deadly conspiracy to hide these crimesHer investigation is complicated by a secret liaison, a political cover-up and the underground life of Trevor Grey''s only friend. With meticulously realised characters and a brooding setting, Grave''s End confronts the crisis in housing, environmentalism, historic cases of abuse and the protection given to badgers by the lawThe third book in the DS Alexan