Sometimes the past should be left in the past…
In a small tobacco shop in Birmingham, her owner and… a newly appointed deputy district prosecutor are found dead. Both are killed with a shot to the back of the head—like they were executed. But they weren’t even acquainted and, at first glance, have nothing to do with each other. The case is so strange that it’s handed over to the best detectives of the local police—Kerry Devlin and Luke Falco.
Soon it turns out their former colleague, Sadie Cross, might be involved in this crime. But Sadie has recently lost her memory… And it seems the fragments of her memories are another cipher that needs to be deciphered to find clues.
At the same time, Devlin is told that her daughter, studying at the Brighton academy, knocked another student down the stairs. In secret, the girl tells her mother about frequent memory lapses and a suspicious new classmate. And again, that mysterious amnesia… The events intertwine like pieces of a carefully assembled puzzle.