<b>Gus Freeman is a retired Detective Inspector who has spent the past three years alone. <b> <br><b>Freeman’s wife, Tess, died from a brain aneurysm six months to the day after his retirement. <b> <br><b>He is still coming to terms with his enforced solitary existence. <b> <br> <br><p>His old boss wants Gus to head up a Crime Review Team investigating cold cases. Old witness statements and fresh clues would cloud his thoughts. The hunt would be on. Freeman wonders whether his superiors need his old-style methods. Is the request out of pity; to occupy his mind with fruitless digging into cases their best young brains failed to crack? Gus can't resist the chance to enter the fray for one last hurrah. <p> <br><p>In this first case, the team tackle the brutal murder of Daphne Tolliver in June 2008. The sixty-eight-year-old widow was walking her dog, Bobby in woodland close to her home. Despite the efforts of detectives at the time they never identified a single suspect. A reconstruction of Daphne's last known moments on TV five years later yielded nothing. Gus Freeman and his new team appear to have a tough nut to crack for their first case. </p><br><br> <br> <br> <p><em>"It's a mystery that will keep you wondering, with the usual wide array of characters to enjoy that give Tayler's novels their stamp." </em></em><p> <br>