Despite all the recent drama in the police department, the Crime Review Team has another cold case to unravel. Dennis Gates was shot dead in August, 2010. His killer was never found.

Dennis Gates, a forty-nine-year-old car dealer in Marlborough, was at his office in August, 2010, when a young man drove onto the forecourt of the garage, pulled up by the office door, and calmly walked around the front of the car. Gates came to the door expecting to greet a potential customer. The killer swung a gun up and fired twice from point-blank range, hitting Gates in the throat. The police believed it was a possible contract killing.

The team members have their own crises to face. Will the frantic search for Detective Inspector Suzie Ferris and her kidnapper have a successful outcome? Can Gus end the careers of the corrupt senior officers behind her disappearance? Or will the team buckle under the pressure?