The wind rushed up at him as he fell. Feet first.

He laughed. His laugh became a scream.

Guttural. Deep.

During a relaxing break on the Greek island of Zakynthos, DI Lancaster and DS Vidêt befriend a charming Greek couple, Andreas and Sophia Chrysopolos. 

But when the owner of a local taverna alerts them to the unsolved death of Andreas’s brother, Micos, forty-five years ago, the pair begin to question the motives of their new friend’s relationship. 

Unable to let it go, Lancaster and Vidêt decide to investigate, yet with so much time having passed since the death, the evidence is littered amongst unreliable reports. Was Micos’s death really the result of an old Greek vendetta, founded during the Second World War, and the Civil War that followed? Or is there more to the story?