Hide yourself away, get on top of you to-do list and settle down for this gripping, top-notch crime thriller by award-winning British TV and radio screenwriter and novelist, Rob Gittins.

A mutilated body, carrying no identification, is found washed up on the shore and DI Lara Arden’s team is immediately on the case. Slowly, over the week that follows as the investigation unfolds, thoughts in Lara’s mind begin to coalesce, connections start to be made.

Patterns she’d previously believed to be just happenstance or chance begin to emerge.

Lara has overseen countless investigations in the few years since joining the island force, and she’s enjoyed her meteoric rise through the ranks, but what really has she been doing in all that time? Why, indeed, did she join the force in the first place? Was it a career choice, or something else?

Was it more about the shadow that has lurked over her life for as long as she can remember? That ever-present awareness that, at the heart of her life and her sister’s life, there was a mystery she was unable to resolve. Is that why she plunged into solving other mysteries instead?

It is almost as if, somehow, cracking those mysteries might salve that ever-open wound. If she solves this latest case, can that wound finally be healed forever?

‘Rob Gittins is a highly acclaimed dramatist whose work has been enjoyed by millions in TV and radio dramas.’ Nicholas Rhea – author of the Constable series, adapted for TV as Heartbeat