Publisher's Synopsis
When his daughter Samantha calls one morning at 5 a.m., John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her partner Keith has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst...and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect. Though he wasn't always the best parent - the job always came first - now his child needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective? As he travels to the windswept coast of a small place with big secrets, he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life when the truth is the one thing he doesn't want to find...
