Peter Robinson

1980. Nick Hartley returns home from a university lecture to find his house trawling with police who suspect him of murder. His ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found dead and her new boyfriend Mark Woodcroft is missing. The case is never solved - leaving Nick to pursue his own dangerous obsession for justice. 2019. An archaeologist in Yorkshire unearths a skeleton that isn't the Roman remains she was seeking, and Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called in to investigate.
Left with few clues, Banks must rely on his wits to hunt down a killer. As the two cases unfurl, the investigations twist and turn to an explosive conclusion.