'You can find out so much more about some people after they're dead than when they were alive. There's nowhere to hide anything, is there, on a slab?' Newly promoted DS Julie Kite has been in sleepy mid-Wales for mere months when she's faced with her second murder case. A body has been found by school kids trekking the Monks' Trod.The trail takes Julie back north to her parents in Manchester and to a housing estate in a Lancashire town. It's not a simple case – a young mother has disappeared, but so has her son and her next door neighbour's wife. And the husband of the landlady of the B&B where the girl was staying. When Julie encounters an ex-serviceman farmhand with PTSD the case gets more complex still.