A derelict house is being demolished when workmen discover the remains of a young girl. Walker is far from happy at being assigned the seventeen-year-old murder case, espcecially as North's career is really taking off. However, things soon hot up when the murder team unearth more skeletons and Walker suddenly finds himself in charge of one of the biggest investigations in recent years. But when a secret has been buried for seventeen years, the path to justice is more tortuous than ever. Can Walker and his team expose the truth behind one family and their shadowy past?

Meanwhile, North is struggling to keep it together at work after her recent miscarriage, and whith an old flame back on the scene emotions are running high...

Lynda La Plante, the winner of the Bafta 'Dennis Potter Writers Award'