As a detective's personal life unravels, he must piece together the
clues to a baffling series of murders in this Scottish Highlands crime
thriller.
A family day out turns sour for DI McKay when he stumbles across an
unidentified corpse. The day becomes darker still when his
brother-in-law goes missing and is eventually found dead, the result of
a seemingly accidental fall.
Meanwhile, DCI Helena Grant has a disastrous on-line date with a senior
manager of a local hotel chain whose behavior escalates from pompous to
downright disturbing. And, as she arrives home, she receives a
threatening text from someone who has clearly been watching her. When a
further body is found at the edge of the Cromarty Firth, McKay and Grant
begin to piece together a grim tale of violence, human trafficking, and
the darkest family secrets.