The fifth in the acclaimed Detective Chief Inspector Tom Caton Manchester Crime Novels. Having just had some disturbing news from his past Tom is sent to investigate a body unearthed at the Cutacre Open Cast Mine. As victims and suspects begin to multiply Tom finds himself faced with an impossible choice. And still he must find the elusive killer.

An intelligent, fastpaced, gripping story, set in the North West of England - a place Bill Rogers knows and captures so well.