When Amy Parris's body turned up on a bleak Norfolk beach a year after she was lost at sea, two people knew it was not the tidy solution it seemed. One of them would soon be dead. DCI Gio Jones has the case sewn up in a fortnight, until his ex-colleague and rival John Bewick throws the case into turmoil, uncovering layer after layer of hatred and aggression amongst those who knew the dead woman and unleashing a storm of violence which threatens to engulf them all.