A severed hand is discovered in an abandoned flat. But the woman it belongs to disappeared decades ago — yet no one has ever reported her missing.
Detective Jake Porter identifies the victim as Natasha Barclay, expecting an old case gone cold. Instead, he finds a family full of secrets and disturbing links to another investigation.
The deeper he dig into Natasha’s disappearance the more dangerous the truth becomes. A local heavy has everyone looking over their shoulder, while rumours of corruption inside the police threaten to derail the investigation from within. Someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to hide the past — and they'll kill to keep it buried.
Natasha Barclay was forgotten for years. It's up to Detective Porter to find out who wanted her to stay that way.
Robert Scragg is a Sunday Times Bestseller, writing as Robert Rutherford. He won the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction in 2021. He lives on the North East Coast with his wife, children & overly-needy dog, and is a founding member of the Northern Crime Syndicate crime-writers group.