Everyone has a past they can't forget . . . Glasgow, 1983, and a beat constable walks away from a bar where he knows a crime is about to be committed. It is a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life.In the present, an old fisherman is found dead by Kinloch's shoreline and a stranger with a deadly mission moves into town.As past and present collide, D.C.I. Jim Daley must confront old friends, new foes and ghosts who will not be silenced.'Dark humour has helped to make his books world-famous' - The Times