How It All Goes Down
- Cassie and Rob are hard at work cracking a murder case.
- Okay, actually they're playing Worms on his computer.
- They are the only people in the office when O'Kelly, the chief, barges in with a case: a murder in Knocknaree. Archeologists found the body.
- This is the first time Rob has been to Knocknaree since the incident in the woods. (Warning: We're going to try and say in the woods as much as possible during this summary.)
- Rob and Cassie ride out there to see the body… wait for it… in the woods.
- Dr. Hunt, the site director, passes them off to Mark, a guy who often does tours of the site.
- Mark tells them that they found a Neolithic settlement in the woods, and other artifacts from almost a thousand years ago.
- Despite the finds, the government is going to bulldoze the site for a motorway in a month.
- He leads them to the body, which has been placed on a ceremonial stone.
- For a second, Rob thinks it's Jamie, his friend who disappeared, ahem, in the woods twenty years ago.
- It's not. This girl has only been dead a day.
- Sophie, the crime-scene tech, gives them the rundown: ten to thirteen years old; head smashed in; ligature marks on the neck; probably raped; probably killed somewhere else, then dumped; there's a bloody rock nearby.
- There's also a red hairclip shaped like a strawberry nearby, but it doesn't seem to be this girl's. Who could it belong to? Rob thinks he knows…