When DI Isabel Blood receives a phone call during her daughter's parents evening, she can't help but sigh at the thought of letting Ellie down again. A body has been found, and she has no choice but to go. As she approaches Ecclesdale Drive, an uneasy feeling settles in her gut. The property cordoned off is number 23. The house she used to live in as a child ... The forensic team estimate that the body had been buried between twenty and forty years ago coinciding with the time Imogen and her family lived in the house. Isabel's father disappeared without a trace when she was fourteen years old after returning from a school trip, he had simply vanished from her life. With her mother ever determined to remain tight-lipped about the subject, she can't escape the unnerving sense of dread that it's his body, at the bottom of the garden.