Between Us Now

It is Coronation Day 1902 and it is seven year old Sarah McMillan's last day alive. Eye witnesses confirm that she spent the day playing with her best friend on the streets of Pelaw Quay, an industrial settlement in north eastern England. She vanishes on her way home in the early evening and two days later, after frantic searching, her body is finally found concealed in a shallow grave. She has been savagely murdered. A local police team investigate the confused and contradictory events of the day and they soon make an arrest of a local man - a former soldier. But was he the real murderer or an innocent dupe?

A century later a young author sits down to write a book about the crime, and what begins as an apparently straightforward tale of a historical rush to judgement takes on some altogether stranger and unexpected twists.