Some bodies just won't stay buried...

After putting a stop to one of Edinburgh s most notorious serial killers 3 years ago, DCI Liam Brodie is known as a man who can handle - and solve - the hardest of cases. But when he s assigned to Fife s Major Investigations Team, he soon realises that he s walking into a minefield. The previous DCI is missing, presumed dead, and the case he s been called in to lead becomes dangerously close to home.

When a child s bones are unearthed beneath the floorboards of an old house in Fife - the same house where his girlfriend, psychologist Ruth Calder, grew up as a foster daughter - Brodie uncovers a tangled web of lies and jealousy. Ruth s foster mother, now gripped by dementia, holds fragments of the truth but in a community haunted by its history, Brodie must navigate betrayal and buried guilt to bring a decades-old secret to light.

But at what cost to those he loves most?

Don't miss this explosive start to a brand new series from Scottish crime writer John Carson!

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