Returning to Dorset after many years working as a detective in the big city, Nicola Bridge never expected the picturesque village of Fleetcomb to become the scene of a brutal murder. The body of Jim Tiernan, owner of the White Stag pub, is found staged with bizarre theatricality on a remote country road. Nicola begins to ask questions and immediately realises that everyone in this village is hiding something. Rumours. Gossip. Lies. But Nicola knows that amid all this, the real killer is hiding in plain sight. Because sometimes it is the smallest villages that hide the darkest secrets...