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2024: Every family’s worst nightmare…
Memorial Park
What you need to know before your trail
Three-year-old Rosie Logan is missing. Her mother, Maria, turned away for just one moment and now her life is changed forever. It falls to PC Lucy Halliday and her police dogs, Moss and Iggy, to find the girl, under the direction of Lucy’s boss and friend, DCI Jack Ellis.
The case brings up old trauma for Jack. His childhood best friend, Theo, went missing when he was eleven and was never found. This is Jack’s chance to make things right. He won’t fail Rosie like he failed Theo.
But the investigation doesn’t go smoothly. The Logan family have been keeping secrets. And every time Lucy and Jack think they’re making progress, they’re hampered by yet another one. Can they find the truth, and Rosie, before it’s too late?
Locations
Reset- England -Hampshire
- A: Fordingbridge - Memorial Park
- B: Fordingbridge - Rugby Football Club
- C: Fordingbridge - Normandy Way
- D: Fordingbridge, the River Avon
- E: Southampton - Central Police Station
- F: Southampton, Southampton General Hospital
- G: Southampton - Marchmont
- H: Portsmouth - Havant/Gathurst
- I: Southampton - Bassett
- J: Winchester - HMP Winchester
Travel Guide
Fordingbridge
Many of the less desirable locations in Memorial Park are fictional – for obvious reasons! – but Memorial Park in Fordingbridge is based on a real place. However, eagle-eyed residents will spot I have taken some liberties with the layout and nature of Memorial Park and its surroundings. I wanted a large, public area, but one that wasn’t too busy, with plenty of places for a search dog to sniff. So, apologies, there is no patch of woodland and no badgers.
Secondly, the suburb of Gathurst in Portsmouth, where Jason and Theo live as children and where Theo disappeared, simply doesn’t exist. Gathurst means ‘the way through the wooded hill’ and I thought it worked. I considered using existing places but as I’m not particularly nice about the area, I decided on using a pure figment of my imagination.
Sometimes, it’s simply easier to make things up. It is fiction, after all.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Memorial Park
Destination/location: Southampton , Fordingbridge, Hampshire, Author/guide: Louisa Scarr Departure Time: 2024
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