A brutal murder occurred at a remote bungalow in January, 2013. Gus Freeman and his team are assigned the cold case.

In Wiltshire, England, the Crime Review Team is headed by Gus Freeman, pulled back to the police force after three years in retirement. With old witness statements plus fresh clues, the hunt can be on again. Freeman and his team now have several successful cold-case investigations behind them.

Ursula Wakeley, a seventy-eight-year-old spinster, was murdered in 2013. Why did the former librarian become a victim? Was it a robbery or something more sinister?

Returning to the Crime Review Team is Alex Hardy, and Blessing Umeh is a new member joining the Crime Review Team, giving Gus Freeman new hands and new issues to deal with.