
When the body of a former youth offender appears half-buried in the Surrey Hills, DI Stephanie Broadbent believes the answers lie in the victim’s recent past. Men like him don’t simply stop offending. But what she discovers is a past that goes way deeper and is way darker than she could ever have imagined. A past that seems to vanish the closer she looks. Because the victim played a game of rock, paper, scissors—but not as you know it.