Even the coldest case will eventually crack. November 1993. Scotland is in the grip of the coldest winter in living memory & the Lake of Menteith is frozen over. A young man & woman walk across the ice to the historic island of Inchmahome which lies in the middle of the lake. Only the man comes back. In the spring as staff prepare the abbey ruins for summer visitors they discover the unidentifiable remains of the body of a girl her skull violently crushed. Twenty years later present day. Retired detective Alan Narey is still haunted by the unsolved crime. Desperate to relieve her fathers conscience DS Rachel Narey returns to the Lake of Menteith & unofficially reopens the cold case. With the help of police photographer Tony Winter Rachel discovers that the one man her father had always suspected was the killer has recently died. Risking her job & reputation Narey prepares a dangerous gambit to uncover the killers identity
- little knowing who that truly is. Despite the freezing temperatures the ice cold case begins to thaw & with it a tide of secrets long frozen in time are suddenly & shockingly unleashed.