Ramsay Keiller is found shot dead and Jill Fortune has disappeared. Was Keiller still working for the government, even in retirement—or was he working against it? Was piano teacher Jill simply in the wrong place at the wrong time? Fifty years after his blues band made the Top Forty, Dan Swann is still causing ripples—but not with his music. He has a message for the world, but the world isn’t listening.

DI Jeff Lincoln needs to fit the pieces of this puzzle together, but he’s in a different police station, with a team he doesn’t know, and a member of his own team’s in trouble. Can he solve this case before it’s too late? A story of revenge and conspiracy, regret and retribution, against the backdrop of Salisbury Plain.

This is the fifth book in the series featuring DI Jeff Lincoln.

Nikki Copleston is the author of four previous novels featuring Wiltshire detective Jeff Lincoln. Her stories have won awards, including the Wells Literary Festival and Frome Festival Short Story Competitions, and she is an active member of Frome Writers’ Collective.

After a career in local government in London, she moved to Somerset in 2012 to write full time.

A keen photographer, Nikki takes her inspiration from the landscape of the West Country, although her novels reveal the darker side of life in rural towns and the countryside. She lives in Wells with husband John and Harvey the cat.

For more information, go to her website at www.nikkicopleston.com.