Coffee‑drinking, world-weary DCI Stanley Arthur Peregrine Wood is back—and this time with an axe to grind. 

Grief over his wife’s death and a growing infatuation with his sassy DI, Verity Chandler, threaten to cloud his judgement. People he cares about keep disappearing, and every trail leads back to the secretive organisation known only as T.S.A. 

Terrell, Zane, and Kemuel know their lives will never be the same after a shopkeeper is murdered. Splitting up should keep them safe, but as fear, betrayal, and violence tighten their grip, the brothers begin to realise they are not fugitives at all, but pawns in a game too vast for them to comprehend.

Can DCI Wood hold firm long enough to uncover the truth—or will the truth discover him