Summary With DI Peter Pascoe away visiting his daughter and ex-wife in Florida, Det. Supt. Andy Dalziel investigates the murder of local solicitor David Brewer. At the request of an old friend, Sgt. Ted Lock, Andy makes his son, DS Mark Lock acting DI in Pascoe's absence. Brewer was found tied to a chair in his ransacked office and was severely beaten. The circumstances are virtually identical to a murder five years previously, one that Mark Lock had worked on. Brewer's wife Gillian was having an affair with local butcher Tom Piper and Andy is suspicious of a local doctor, Robert Silwood. It all becomes very complicated and personal for Andy when Ted Lock's recently deceased wife Fran, Mark's mother and one of Andy's old flames, is indirectly implicated in the case. She also leaves Andy a note revealing the true of identity of Mark's father. Pascoe unexpectedly returns from holiday and helps Andy deal with a second murder.

• Crime
• Drama
• Mystery