<p><b><i>DCI Monika Paniatowski is forced to think the unthinkable: could a good friend and long-standing colleague be guilty of murder?</i></b><br><br>On the day of her official retirement from the Force, DCI Monika Paniatowski looks at the two men and one woman who are no longer her team and thinks: <i>Whatever the future holds, I will always be proud of you</i>. She raises a toast. And just like that, her career as a homicide detective is over.<br><br>Then, fifteen years later, Monika''s former sergeant, Kate Meadows, makes a terrible mistake.<br><br>Monika doesn''t hesitate when Kate turns to her for help. She owes her, and she can hardly let her old friend go down for a crime she didn''t commit. <br><br>But as Monika gets deeper into the investigation, she''s forced to ask herself the unthinkable: is Kate really innocent, or is she helping her old friend get away with murder?<br><br><b>Packed with twists that will make you gasp out loud, the fifteenth - and final - DCI Monika Pani