Charlene McKenna

In the gripping thriller from Jed Mercurio, veteran detective Tom Brannick connects a criminal's car pulled from the sea to a notorious series of disappearances, including his own wife's twenty years earlier. Brannick begins an obsessive campaign to unmask a possible assassin, code-named Goliath, in a case that evokes Northern Ireland's dark past.

"Spring 1908: Brilliant young English doctor Max Liebermann and tenacious Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt are now working as an established crime-solving partnership. Max is now a published author in the field of criminal psychopathy and has finally moved out of his parents' house into a plush apartment of his own. Oskar's reputation has been bolstered by his successful investigations with Max, and while he is still at odds with his superior...

Tom's superior is arrested and interviewed, but Tori worries there's not enough evidence for a conviction. Niamh remains unconvinced that they've finally caught Goliath and starts her own investigation.

Tom reels from the discovery of three bodies buried 20 years ago-one of which may be his wife. Tom and Niamh interview Pat Keenan, the man who was kidnapped, but he won't say who abducted him. Later, Tom confronts Adam Corry, who was hunting Goliath.

Tom and Olivia race to track down the gold before the police can find it. Olivia proves her worth by sharing information with Tom that leads him and Niamh to a major breakthrough and an arrest. But the more Tom hears about Olivia from other sources, the more he realizes she cannot be trusted.

Tom is forced to suppress his rage in order to cover up the crime that Olivia has committed. Tom struggles to recover the gold-and the evidence that could incriminate him-as a revelation from Izzy knocks him off course. Olivia overplays her hand to disastrous effect, and gangster Ryan Savage nears acquiring what he desires most.

DCI Tom Brannick and his partner, DS Niamh McGovern, are called to the scene of a shooting on the shores of Strangford Lough. Tom recognizes the victim as a wealthy accountant from his troubled past, and the subsequent investigation of the dead man's widow, Olivia Foyle, leads Tom into a web of intrigue that is inextricably bound to his previous misdeeds.

Crime boss daughter Greta is rescued from suicide by stranger Pearse on New Year's Eve, a night that will change both their lives forever.