It's DC Judy Lane who takes the call. ‘There’s a body in Forge Cottage, on the Old Llangwelli Road.’

The elderly victim is found propped up in his own back garden, a chain wrapped tightly around his chest.

The only clues to what happened are a glass of red wine, a Chinese takeaway receipt — and a missing delivery driver.

Before Detective Norman can pull the pieces together, the wife of a prominent local businessman disappears . . . And a second body is discovered in a seafront hotel.

Two dead bodies and a missing person: there’s something very nasty going on in this quiet little seaside town. It’s up to Detective Norman to uncover the truth before events turn even darker.