1969. Helen Tozer has given up her job with the police and returns to her family's farm in South England with the severely injured Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen. A place with a terrible past: Five years earlier, Alexandra Tozer, Helen's sister, was murdered here. Breen, who was initially prescribed rest and relaxation, becomes engrossed in the unsolved case and quickly discovers that the Tozers never learned the whole truth about Alexandra's death. William Shaw's gripping crime novel takes us to 1960s England. The investigator duo of Helen Tozer and Cathal Breen is actually seeking peace in the countryside, but when Breen reopens an old murder case, he disturbs the perpetrator from that time. The perpetrator will stop at nothing, and soon Helen has vanished without a trace.