When a local farmer is found dead, Ridley is called on by his ex-colleague and newly promoted DI Carol Farman to assist on a missing persons case that remains unsolved after 13 years. Ridley always suspected the investigation was flawed, and that the wrong man was tried for Hannah Lindsay's abduction. As they delve deeper, they uncover another body, and a shocking secret.
When the body of a young woman is found buried in a shallow grave on a bleak Pennine moorland, Carol calls in Ridley to assist with the case.
A jazz singer's brother went missing 40 years ago, Ridley decides to help find the brother but the murder of a woman appears to be connected to the case
Ridley and Carol are called out to investigate the death of a man after a fall from his balcony. During the investigation, Ridley makes a shocking discovery between the current murder case, and the arson attack which killed his family.
Retired detective Alex Ridley re-enters the gritty world of crime to lend his expertise as police consultant to Carol and Goodwin with a perplexing case involving a spate of jewellery raids, but the complexity deepens when a crucial witness on the brink of exposing vital information about the criminal gang responsible is killed. As the team discovers connections to a stud farm and a local middleman in the drug trade, Ridley races against time to decipher the motives of the case.
