Her son missing, a desperate detective hunts for clues in a decades-old case with possible connections to England's notorious Moors Murders . . . DS Jan Pearce struggles to focus on the job after her teenage son, Aiden, vanishes--and is frustrated when her colleagues presume that he's run away. While Janet works with her partner to take down local gangster Sean Connelly, she increasingly suspects Connelly may be involved in Aiden's disappearance. When it comes to searching for her son, though, she's on her own.
The trail leads Jan to a property where she hopes to find Aiden--instead, she discovers two corpses. And when she learns that one of the deceased also had a son who went missing, she'll be plunged into mysteries both past and present . . .