Some bodies just won't stay buried... After putting a stop to one of Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers 3 years ago DCI Liam Brodie is known as a man who can handle - and solve - the hardest of cases. But when he’s assigned to Fife’s Major Investigations Team he soon realises that he’s walking into a minefield. The previous DCI is missing presumed dead and the case he’s been called in to lead becomes dangerously close to home. When a child’s bones are unearthed beneath the floorboards of an old house in Fife - the same house where his girlfriend psychologist Ruth Calder grew up as a foster daughter - Brodie uncovers a tangled web of lies and jealousy. Ruth’s foster mother now gripped by dementia holds fragments of the truth but in a community haunted by its history Brodie must navigate betrayal and buried guilt to bring a decades-old secret to light. But at what cost to those he loves most?
