DI Peter Shaw & DS George Valentine

Harvey Ellis is found dead - viciously stabbed at the wheel of his truck which is stranded in a blizzard. For DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine it's only the start of an infuriating investigation. The crime scene is melting, the murderer has vanished, the witnesses are dropping like flies. And the body count is on the rise...

September 1992, 15 year-old Norma Jean Judd disappears from her home never to be seen again. Exactly eighteen years later Norma Jean's twin, Bryan, is pulled from the searing heat of a hospital incinerator. Could his death somehow be linked to his sister's disappearance? For DI Shaw and DS Valentine, the case proves their most intriguing yet.

When the coffin of murdered pub landlady Nora Tilden is exhumed, there's a grim discovery - the twisted corpse of a young black man, killed and dumped in the grave on the night Nora was buried 28 years earlier. DI Peter Shaw, DS George Valentine and their team are put on the case, but are baffled by this brutal murder.

On a hot August day in 1994, young man is stabbed and left to bleed to death on an uninhabited island off the North Norfolk coast. The case is never solved. Twenty years later, Marianne Osbourne is found dead in her bed, a wartime cyanide pill lodged in her throat. Is there a link to the 1994 murder? DI Peter Shaw is in charge of the case.