In a backstreet hotel in Gorebridge, misleadingly named The Grand, a husband and wife sat on the hard bed, leaning against a plastic headboard. They had travelled down from London the week before and, even though it was the cheapest place to stay that they could find, money was running out fast. They had booked in under their real names - Hugh and Veronica Stokes, but it was an alias they had invented that they both thought would make them rich. The name Claire Voyant had come to Veronica after her cousin in Gorebridge told her that she had been to a May Day Fayre at a stately home, where a psychic had found a missing boy and even knew where a kidn*pped girl was. The girl herself had been giving interviews on the television and in the newspapers, telling anyone who would listen about this
