Haunted by a child-snatching job in Munich that went wrong, Brodie is determined to atone for his mistake - and gets the chance when the search for a woman's birth parents leads him into the dark heart of 1970s police corruption and murder.

A woman is convinced that her daughter's riding accident was murder and through his investigation Jackson must confront some difficult truths about the destructive nature of love. His relationship with his own daughter, Marlee, gets more complicated too.

Jackson helps a teenage boy who has grown up in the shadow of his murdered mother to understand how she really died. Meanwhile, he wrestles with his own dilemmas as a past case threatens his future and relationships.