A young local student has apparently committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. She didn't own a car. How did she get there? Meanwhile a man in his sixties is found dead in a gully up on the wild moorland. Post-mortem findings indicate he died from injuries sustained during the fall. But what was he doing up there? As the inconsistencies multiply and the mysteries proliferate Annie's father's new partner Zelda comes up with a shocking piece of information that alerts Banks and Annie to the return of an old enemy. This is someone who will stop at nothing not even murder to get what he wants.