When he was seven years old, Detective Inspector Temple found his mother murdered. Since then, he's been a man on a mission to find her killer. It's what drove him to join the police. Now, finally, he has a chance to discover the truth.
An elderly man is savagely beaten in his own home. His attackers show no mercy. Left for dead, the World War II veteran crawls to the phone to call for help . . .Eighteen months later, Guy Newland is summoned to a meeting in a hotel in Egypt. He's told his DNA has been found, linking him to a historic crime. Newland knew this day would come. He's been plagued by a woman's face in his nightmares for the past thirty-five years.Four months later, two young men are found in a car in the woods, each with a gunshot wound to the head.DI Temple must pull the threads together and find out what links these shocking crimes. And will he finally find out the truth about his mother?