Midsummer heat is building up tension on one of Bradfield’s decaying housing estates and fires are stoked when two young car thieves are killed in an encounter with the police. The screws are tightened when a young girl goes missing in what looks like a carbon copy of a murder ten years before. Laura Ackroyd, reporter on the local paper, begins to wonder if the police got the wrong man all those years ago. But it’s a notion fiercely resisted by DCI Michael Thackeray in spite of the growing mutual attraction between him and the red-headed reporter. Not for the first time their professional lives clash while their personal encounters become closer and anger and violence grow more threatening as they both begin to probe what happened on the Heights now and in the past.
