The body of a young woman is found in an abandoned car on a country road. It looks like suicide, but Superintendent Alan Banks won't rule out foul play. DI Annie Cabot is at the scene of another death: A man in his sixties has been found on the wild moorland. Following Sleeping in the Ground, Banks's and Cabot's 25th case is a deadly double: both victims were elegantly dressed and found in the same area. Then Annie obtains a piece of information that rocks the Eastvale detectives working both investigations. An old enemy has returned in a new guise—and he will stop at nothing, not even mass murder, to get what he wants.