Description:Birmingham, England, UK, 1943.
While
the whine of the air raid sirens might no longer be rousing him from
bed every night, a two-decade-old unsolved murder case will ensure that
Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is about to suffer
more sleepless nights.
Young Robert McFarlane’s body was found
outside the local church hall on 30th September 1923. But, his cause of
death was drowning, and he’d been missing for three days before his body
was found. No one was ever arrested for the crime. No answers could
ever be given to the grieving family. The unsolved case has haunted
Mason ever since.
But, the chance discovery of another victim,
with worrying parallels, sets Mason, and his constable, O’Rourke, on a
journey that will take them back over twenty-five years, the chance to
finally solve the case, while all around them is uncertainty, impossible
to ignore.