Detective Mike Nash thought that moving back to Yorkshire from London would give him a quieter life. Little did he know . . .

A hit-and-run. A naked body in the cemetery. A local woman reported missing.

A pregnant woman is knocked down by a couple in a car. They don’t stop. Nearby, a man films the whole thing. He stands there smiling. Months later, Detective Mike Nash is called out to the local cemetery. A naked body has been found — a body which definitely shouldn’t be there — placed face down on a grave. The post-mortem reveals that the victim was restrained with manacles, and then drowned, his body kept upside-down for several days after death. The dead man was Andrew Derrick. Quiet, well-mannered, he kept himself to himself. Who would want to kill him?

Then a second body, a drug dealer, turns up in the cemetery, killed in the same macabre way. What connects them? DI Nash pieces the clues together . . . and finds himself on the trail of a ruthless killer with a deadly agenda.