When a seventeen-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath the case falls to DCI Karen Shields & her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime team. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesnt know is that her new case is tied to a much larger web of gang warfare & organised crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society. Several hundred miles away In Cornwall DI Trevor Cordon is stirred from his day-to-day duties by another tragic London fatality. Travelling to the capital Cordon becomes entangled in a lethally complex situation of his own. A situation much closer to Karens case than either of them can imagine...