With his first case in Suffolk successfully closed, DI Harrison Baird faces a difficult return to the familiar streets of Aberdeen, to his home and his homeland, his friends and his family and his cat. Or stay in England, with his estranged father and a lifetime’s worth of trauma.

Maybe it’s not too difficult a choice after all.

But even as he makes plans to leave, the county is rocked by a horrific a local celebrity, tied to a tree and shot with arrows, his head missing.

It’s a crime that echoes one of East Anglia’s most famous legends, and Baird soon realises they’re chasing a killer who is opening up old wounds.

Together with DC Constance Connell and the rest of the Southwold Major Investigation Team, DI Baird begins a hunt for a monster.

And discovers that he isn’t the only one with unfinished business…