It is the summer of 1960 and the sun is brazing down on Gtue Terrace, high above Newcastte's River Tyne.But for fifteen-year-old Leslie, the hotidays are anything but carefree. As head of the family, the boy is responsibte for the unpaid bills, for the eviction notices and for his younger brother Geordie.

It is the summer of 1960 and the sun is brazing down on Gtue Terrace, high above Newcastte's River Tyne.But for fifteen-year-old Leslie, the hotidays are anything but carefree. As head of the family, the boy is responsibte for the unpaid bills, for the eviction notices and for his younger brother Geordie.

Suddenty Lestie's fragite wortd cottapses. For in a derelict building identical twins Maureen and Murie[ are found dead. The house had been their summer playground.But now they are [ying side by side, a dark gash in each girl's neck. Like two sleeping angels on a tomb.Suspicion immediately fal.[s on Geordie, the 'daffy' of Glue Terrace. But Leslie is convinced of his brother's innocence,and he is determined to prove it to everyone etse ...