The police are called when a young man is found dead in the garden of his family home. It looks like an all-too-familiar story of depression and despair but when DCI Anna Davenport starts asking questions, a few things don’t quite add up. Short-staffed and with an important court case looming, she calls on her trusted assistant DI Andy Lepage to help to untangle the mystery.

However, before long, both Davenport and Lepage have other, more personal, concerns to occupy their minds. Andy’s home life becomes ever more complicated while Anna struggles with feelings of guilt when a family member attempts to take his own life. Juggling a demanding job with domestic responsibilities has never been harder for these two officers in an over-stretched police service, but they remain determined to get to the bottom of how and why Rory Quinn died on a day when he should have been celebrating.

This thought-provoking crime story is a sequel to “Just another Knife Crime”, but is complete in itself and can be read as a stand-alone novel.