The gruesome discovery of a body on London's Hampstead Heath, that has lain undisturbed for 40 years, gives newly promoted DI Sam Cooper his first murder investigation. He finds a number of disappearances over many years that seem connected, but is this too much of a coincidence? His search takes him back to a troubled Paris of 1968, and a tragic accident. As he untangles the connections Cooper has his own issues to deal with, a suspect that that has contacts in high places, and a convicted killer who has disappeared.....