An electrifying new thriller from the acclaimed author of Dark Harbour. A reporter is found brutally murdered in her home and incriminating evidence leads to the arrest of a small-time drug dealer. But to local cop Jack Cassian, something doesn't add up. The victim's wealthy mother is hostile and unhelpful. With the help of the dead woman's sister, Cassian begins to search for the truth. Soon he is unearthing distrubing secrets more than 50 years old. Secrets about experiments involving sterilisation of patients at a mental institution and secrets that someone will kill to keep...