Alex and Carol are called out to look into the death of a man who seemingly fell from his balcony. During the investigation, the retired detective makes a shocking discovery that links the current case with the arson attack that killed his family.

After a chance encounter with jazz singer Eve Marbury, the former detective agrees to help find her brother, who has been missing for 40 years. When a woman is found dead, dark secrets that have been buried for decades begin to emerge.

Carol calls in Ridley to assist with the case when the body of a young woman is found buried in a shallow grave on a bleak Pennine moorland, but the victim was not all she seemed as the former detective discovers that she was leading a secret double life.

When a local farmer is found dead, retired detective Alex Ridley is called upon by his former colleague and protegee DI Carol Farman to assist on an unsolved missing person's case. As they delve deeper, they uncover another body, and a shocking secret.