In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a GP But Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend - Jackson Brodie - himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted