Set under the brooding skies of North Norfolk. Meet Sara Hirst as she searches for her lost father and finds that great beauty can conceal great violence.

Detective Sara Hirst has moved to Norfolk Police's Serious Crimes Unit, leaving behind her mother in London. Her mother won't tell Sara the truth about her father. Sara has come to Norfolk to find out why he abandoned her.

Her first call-out is a decomposing body discovered in a ditch on a local farm. How does the murder relate to a recent spate of farm thefts and who wanted the man dead?

Then the case grows very personal ...