| Summary: |
DI Vera Stanhope comes face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer who disappeared in the mid-nineties, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead and buried close to St. Mary's Island in Whitley Bay but a search team finds not one skeleton, but two. This cold case takes Vera back in time as Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as 'the Prof', were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they were regulars at a glamorous nightclub called The Seagull. Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. As the past begins to collide dangerously with the present, Vera confronts her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth. |
