<p><b><i>Two murders, forty years apart. What links them? Detectives Anderson & Costello undertake their most baffling investigation to date. </i></b><br><br>The body is found in the early hours of the morning, drifting lifelessly on the outgoing tide. Twenty-three-year-old medical student Aasha Ariti had been enjoying a night out to celebrate the end of lockdown. Anthony Poole, the last person to have seen her alive, is the prime suspect. <br><br>Before detectives Anderson and Costello can make further headway, they are pulled off the case to investigate the murder of a pensioner in his own home. The body of eighty-one-year-old Jimmy Pearcey reveals evidence of prolonged, excruciating torture in the hours before he died. Of one thing DCI Anderson is certain: this killing was very close and very personal. But the victim was a loner, without friends or relatives.<br><br>As they dig deeper however, the two detectives uncover a number of secrets in the dead man''s past. Secrets that link