Jadon Glover is good-looking professional reliable and a perfect husband according to his wife. So when he fails to return home one night she rings the police certain that something has happened to him. DI Joanna Piercy and DS Mike Korpanski are sceptical: there is no such thing as a perfect marriage. As the investigation proceeds it soon becomes apparent that Jadon Glover has been keeping dark secrets from his wife. And as the police pursue their house-to-house enquiries they unearth other secrets. But whatever else has been going on among the inhabitants' quiet desperate lives it's clear that at least one of them knows what really happened to Jadon…