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by two serving police officers, Katherine Smith and Brendan Johnson. In November, just three months after Daisy Lincoln’s disappearance, these officers went missing, leaving their children behind. Since 2007 nothing has been heard of them. The police are denying any link between these two cases.’
    The screen was then filled with a large picture of Daisy Lincoln and underneath two small photos of her mother and Brendan.
    ‘This is awful,’ Anna said, looking pained. ‘Mr Munroe said that Katherine and Brendan Johnson’s death had had to be hushed up because of other cases they were working on. These police, involved in this business in East London, won’t know any of this. Mr Munroe says they’ll be told and then their names will disappear from the story.’
    Rose didn’t answer. It was best to let Anna believe Munroe. Anna had put the remote down and was now staring at the screen and gripping the gold chain that she always wore round her neck. An odd feeling was swirling round in Rose’s chest. She felt a spurt of affection for this stiff woman who was her grandmother. It made her feel bad about not telling her the truth about Katherine, her own daughter. What would Anna say if she knew that Katherine was alive, living in hiding, spending her life on a personal mission to right the wrongs of society. What would Anna think of her daughter then?
    It was better to let her think of her as dead.
    ‘I’m going up to my room for a while,’ Rose said and Anna nodded distractedly.
    Rose walked upstairs agitated. She was already on edge but Munroe’s appearance had further shaken her. She plucked out a stick of chewing gum from her pocket and put it on her tongue. Now, it seemed, was as good a time as any to work on her statement. She went to her study and opened the bottom drawer of her desk. At the back, in a file labelled Solicitors , she pulled out an envelope. On the outside, in her neatest writing, were the names Myers and Goodwood and an address in Finchley. It was the firm that her mother and Brendan had used for their affairs. Underneath the name was a paragraph that she had taken a long time composing. It was addressed to her grandmother. She closed her study door before sitting down on the armchair to read it over.
    Dear Anna, if anything ever happens to me or Joshua or both of us please take this book to our solicitors. DON’T give it to the police or ANYONE else, just our solicitors. This is very important. Rose Smith.
     
    Inside the envelope was a notebook that she had already written in. It was a deep red colour and had an art deco border. It was the size of a school exercise book and she must have been aware, when she was buying it, of how it differed from those other two notebooks that they had once had in their possession. She turned the pages. She’d filled up about six and she still had a lot to write. She opened the first page and read her message.
     
    The following is a statement made by me, Rose Smith, February 2013. It was written on various dates and it outlines the things that Joshua Johnson, Darren Skeggs (deceased) and I have found out about the disappearance of our parents in November 2007. I write this in case anything happens to me or Joshua. I write it in this form, on paper, because computers and the internet are not safe. Most of what I write is from memory. Any evidence we had is gone.
     
    Underneath she had signed it in an official-looking way. Reading it over made her feel a little silly as though she was play-acting. But what she’d stated was true. All of the communications they’d had via the internet, including her personal blog, Morpho, had had to be stopped. This, pen and paper, hidden away, was the only thing she could use to detail what had taken place.
    In case anything happened to them.
    It was something she was doing alone. Joshua had no part in it.
    She couldn’t help but read over the things she’d written on the first page.
     
    On 4 Nov 2007 Kathy Smith and