Ten years after Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel, residents of the East Yorkshire village of Elvet are disturbed to hear of new evidence proving Jeanie's innocence. Abigail's killer is still at large. For Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrat best friend - and of the fearful winter's day when she discovered her body lying cold in a ditch. As Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh inquries on the peninsula, villagers are taken back to a time they would rather forget. Invariably tensions begin to mount, but are people afraid of the killer. or of their own guilty pasts?