Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope arrived in the secluded coastal town to unravel a perplexing death. The investigation led her down a singular path, the clues persistently circling back to a single street.

A thirty-year-old enigma resurfaces for Vera when the son of a well-respected family in the area is discovered murdered, his death a brutal event on the beach of a popular seaside town.

The discovery of a suspected poacher, dead from a gunshot, compels Vera to delve into the hidden story of his return to the Northumberland moors.

Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope finds herself investigating the perplexing death of a businessman, discovered adrift in the water beneath the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.