When the arrest of a violent criminal goes badly wrong, leaving both the target and a young constable dead, Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch knows something isn't right.
Her uneasiness grows when she starts to believe someone is following her home. In Cornwall, retired Detective
Inspector Elder's solitary life is disturbed by a phone call from his estranged wife, Joanne. Their seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild. The unsettled, unhappy Elder is once again persuaded out of retirement and a cold, cold case soon reveals a devastating present-day impact.
