DI Jake Sawyer is the brightest star of the Met Police murder squad. Smart, tough, and pathologically fearless.

Now he’s quit the capital and returned to his home town in England’s Peak District, to join a Major Crime Unit and to privately investigate the savage murder of his mother, thirty years earlier.

As Sawyer faces three nightmarish new cases, he uncovers the shocking truth behind what really happened to his mother.

It’s a truth that leads him to question his sanity and threatens to tear his world apart.