This time, the story doesn’t take place in university Cambridge and not among crowds of tourists who come to the Edinburgh Festival, though the Scottish capital once again provides a picturesque setting. And the events are set in motion by a nightmare crime from thirty years ago that shook quiet Devonshire and all of England—now a convicted murderer, having served his sentence, is released.
Meanwhile, doctor Hunter disappears with a small child—yet her disappearance seems to worry only her shepherd dog Sadie and sixteen-year-old babysitter Reggie. And senior detective inspector Louisa Monroe is concerned about another missing person—without yet knowing that Jackson Brodie is about to barge back into her life again, at full speed (in the literal sense).