On a bitter February afternoon, DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine discover a body washed up on sands near King's Lynn. As they wait for back-up, a blizzard sweeps in, trapping a line of nine cars. The driver of the first vehicle is also found dead, a chisel through his eye. There are no footsteps in the snow and none of the other drivers saw anything - yet Shaw and Valentine have reason to suspect them all. As they attempt to unravel the case, tensions between the two men grow, exacerbated by the fact that Shaw is the son of Valentine's old partner Jack, whose final case was tainted by corruption. When another body is found on a sandbank, links between the three corpses suggest that no one in that line of cars was innocent, drawing in a conspiracy between a local shellfish company, vicious money-lenders and a troubled mother. As unfinished business catches up with them all, Kelly renders his cast and compulsive plot with a detective's eye for human frailty and a poet's appreciation of the wild Norfolk coast



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