Gus Freeman’s Crime Review Team has two successful cold-case investigations behind them. Will it be third time lucky?

The victim’s profession might make it hard to find someone to talk. Laura Mallinder left home for work on Sunday, June 12, 2011. She walked to Gentle Touch, a massage parlor in Broadgreen, Swindon. Her boss, Maggie Monk, discovered her body later that evening. Laura, twenty-seven-years-old, sustained fatal stab wounds to her back.

Meanwhile, developments continue in ongoing cases, including their most recent case, in which Detective Sergeant Neil Davis’s father, Terry, came under the microscope. Was the former detective responsible for sending an innocent man to prison? Or did he follow orders from a superior officer?

And Detective Sergeant Alex Hardy continues his recovery from his motorcycle accident, hoping to soon take a more active role in the job he loves. Lydia Logan Barre grows closer to Alex and reveals the secret behind her reasons for abandoning her theatrical ambitions and joining the police.