The first in a thrilling new police procedural series set in Scarborough andintroducing DCI Donna Morris, middle-aged, seemingly ordinary - but hiding many secrets.

Many secrets are kept in this small Yorkshire seaside town... but a murder forces them to be revealed


Donna Morris has chosen to do her probationary year as detective constable in the seaside town of Scarborough. And on her first day, a body is found in the woods: the corpse of Henrik Grünttor presents itself as that of a homeless man, dead from his own drug use. However, until recently, Grünttor had been working at the local GCHQ centre on the Russian section and the post mortem reveals the cause of his death to be uncertain.


Now in her early fifties, Donna has her own reasons for wanting to be in Scarborough, ones she would prefer to keep from her colleagues. But Donna is the keeper of many secrets: she tells no one she grew up in East Berlin, escaping across the wall in the early 1980s.


Due to the circumstances of her past Donna is drawn to the dead man whose background is not dissimilar to hers, and her persistence reveals there are several people who wanted Grünttor dead... and gathered around him in his final days like a wake of crows.