Former Detective John Rebus' retirement is disrupted once agai n when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing over a decade earlier. The remains\, found in a rusted car in Pore toun Woods\, not far from Edinburgh\, quickly turn into a cold case murder investigation. Rebus' old friend\, Siobhan Clarke is assigned to the case \, but \;neither of them could have predicted what buried secrets the investigation will uncover. As Clarke and her team investigate the cold ca se murder\, she soon learns a different side of her mentor\, a side he wou ld prefer to keep in the past
\n"It 's been several years since Detective Jimmy Perez left Shetland. He has se ttled into his new home in Orkney\, the group of islands\, off the norther n coast of Scotland\, with his partner Willow Reeve and their growing fami ly. One stormy winter night\, his oldest and closest friend\, Archie Stout \, goes missing. Ever the detective\, \;Perez catches a boat to the is land of Westray\, where Archie worked as a farmer and lived with his wife and children. But when he arrives he finds a shocking Archie's body\, on a n archaeological dig site and an ancient Westray story stone with precise spirals carved into it beside him\, the clear murder weapon. The artifact\ , taken from a nearby museum\, seems to suggest a premeditated murder. But Perez is so close to the case that he struggles to maintain an objective distance from the potential suspects. He finds it difficult to question Ar chie's wife\, whom he's known for years. Rumors swirl about the dead man's relationship with a young woman new to the island\, an artist. With each new lead\, the case becomes more twisted and Perez wonders if he will ever find out what happened in his friend's final days"
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