Soft summer blood

A seemingly open-and-shut case becomes increasingly complicated for Detective Inspector Liam McLusky in this intriguing police procedural. It all seemed so simple: a murder; an obvious suspect; a shaky alibi: DI McLusky never had it so good.

Until a second killing challenges all his earlier assumptions.

With every new piece of evidence McLusky brings to light, the case becomes more complicated.

Does it have its roots in a disappearance eighteen years earlier, or is it firmly based in the present? Meanwhile, DI Kat Fairfield and DS Jack Sorbie are tasked with finding the daughter of a prominent Italian politician, who has disappeared while on a student exchange programme at Bristol University.

Neither is overjoyed to be lumbered with a routine missing person's case while McLusky heads a high-profile murder investigation.

Until they find a dead body of their own...