The words Banks hears at the briefing for his first big case after gaining promotion: 'I assume you're all familiar with Operation Yewtree…' give him a sinking feeling. It's the coldest case possible - the 1967 rape of a young girl by a now elderly celebrity. But when he meets the victim now a well-known poet and hears her story Banks is determined to see justice done. Meanwhile Annie and Winsome are investigating the grisly murder of a teenage girl who was thrown out of a moving van into a ditch in the middle of the night. Then after walking naked dirty and injured down the road in search of help she is beaten to death.

Part of the Inspector McLean series.