Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene of a grim discovery: a trainee forensic psychologist lies dead on a sprawling landfill in Northumberland. She begins to piece together the circumstances surrounding the death, nav…

Vera had to unravel the mystery of a teenage boy discovered murdered, far from the familiar shores of his coastal town.

The foundations of a vast beauty industry are fractured by the discovery of a body – one of three sisters – in the River Tyne. Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanthorpe is called to the scene.

Detective Chief Inspector Stanhope is compelled to revisit a long-dormant investigation, seeking a link to a murder that has occurred in the present.