When Liz Upson reports that her husband, Matthew, has gone missing, hes not exactly a top priority for Detective Sergeant Bert Hook
Matthews just one of thousands of missing persons reported each year. And anyway, Mrs Upson makes it crystal clear that she doesn't particularly care if her husband is found.
He may be missing, but hes certainly not missed.
Busy with other, more pressing cases, Hook lists Matthew Upson in the missing persons database and moves on.
But when Matthews mother appears a few days later and emphatically insists that the circumstances of her sons disappearance are suspicious, Hook and his boss, Superintendent John Lambert, begin to wonder if there might be more going on than just a simple missing persons case
The discovery of Matthew Upsons body in the Malvern Hills, with a bullet through his head, launches Hook and Lambert into a formidable and complex case.
A history lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, Upson at first seems an unlikely candidate for trouble, but the more they dig, the more trouble they find.
With more suspects than they know what to do with Hook and Lambert work to get to the bottom of Matthew Upsons final days and find his murderer, sure that someone is lying.
The only question is who?...M.F