When Amy Parris's body turned up on a bleak Norfolk beach a year after she was lost at sea, two people knew at once it was not the tidy solution to the small mystery it seemed. One of them would soon be dead. Colourful, foul-mouthed DCI Gio Jones has the case sewn up in a fortnight: he even has the accused's DNA. Then his ex-colleague, friend and rival John Bewick, is asked by the defence to review the evidence. Helped by forensic scientist Sally Vernon, Bewick throws the case into turmoil, uncovering layer upon layer of hatred and aggression in those who knew the dead woman. Events escalate into a storm of violence which threatens to engulf them all ...
