Two bodies are discovered in a remote part of the Pennines one cold spring morning. One is DS Phil Leech, the other Fiona Mitchell, an informant. They have both been shot.
DC Karen Sharpe should have been at the midnight rendezvous with Leech, but instead she had been at home, drinking, desperately trying to obliterate something so deeply buried she had hoped to forget it ever happened.
It appears that the murders of Leech and Mitchell are drug-related, but something isn't right. Karen realises this is not about the drugs. It's about her. She has to find the killer quickly, and confront her past, before anyone else finds out the truth, and follows her secrets to a brutal, devastating conclusion...