New truths to uncover and a killer to catch. With a family crisis looming, Detective Inspector Fiona Williams is hoping to take a break when she is called to a suspicious death in an isolated barn conversion, home to a quiet middle-aged couple. Duncan returned home from the pub to discover his wife dead at the foot of their cellar steps. There are no signs of a forced entry or robbery, but the evidence says Pat’s death was no accident. His reaction is strange, but he has a solid alibi for the time of death. Fiona will have to dig deep into the victim’s past to uncover the shocking truth. Pat’s anti-blood sports stance had split the close-knit local community and created a rift with her sister. Could her sister or another hunt member be responsible? Things escalate when Fiona discovers Pat had been about to expose a dubious police appointment. There’s a second murder, and the police officer implicated disappears. While Fiona struggles to solve this troubling case, DCI Peter Hatherall is battling demons of his own.