Inspector Andy Hortons holiday peace is shattered when stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wight on a cold grey January he finds himself facing a distraught young woman with a gun in her hand leaning over a corpse in one of the discarded bunkers When she professes to be the dead mans sister and psychic Hortons old adversary DCI Birch is convinced she is mentally disturbed and the killer but Horton is not so sure Soon he is uncovering a web of intrigue that ripples down the years and which someone is determined should never be revealed