Murder strikes close to home when Burke's father is found dead in his flat.
What looks like an open-and-shut case of liver failure due to alcoholism turns sinister when it's discovered Andrew Burke died of a heroin overdose. Against police regulations, DCI Burke is determined to head up the team and solve his father's murder.
But the investigation throws up plenty of difficult questions. Is a two hundred thousand pound savings plan motive enough for murder?
And could Andrew's friends Tom Gardner, Theresa Braithwaite and Billy Watson be in danger? The elderly members of Andrew's Lunch Club at the local day centre are only just reeling from the sudden death of their friend Ellen Phillips. Is there a connection to the case?
As Matt Burke struggles to keep his emotions in check, and brotherly tensions threaten to destroy his relationship with John once and for all, another murder raises the team's suspicions about the woman who discovered the body - Angie Hamilton, a volunteer at the day-centre.
And the close connection of GP Marion Vaughn, a former doctor at a Hospice, among the ailing group of old folk, raises a disturbing possibility – are the Lunch Club being targeted?
But as DCI Matt Burke races against time to prevent another death, how will he react when he comes face-to-face with the killer? And how will he handle the cold, chilling truth of his father's death?
What looks like an open-and-shut case of liver failure due to alcoholism turns sinister when it's discovered Andrew Burke died of a heroin overdose. Against police regulations, DCI Burke is determined to head up the team and solve his father's murder.
But the investigation throws up plenty of difficult questions. Is a two hundred thousand pound savings plan motive enough for murder?
And could Andrew's friends Tom Gardner, Theresa Braithwaite and Billy Watson be in danger? The elderly members of Andrew's Lunch Club at the local day centre are only just reeling from the sudden death of their friend Ellen Phillips. Is there a connection to the case?
As Matt Burke struggles to keep his emotions in check, and brotherly tensions threaten to destroy his relationship with John once and for all, another murder raises the team's suspicions about the woman who discovered the body - Angie Hamilton, a volunteer at the day-centre.
And the close connection of GP Marion Vaughn, a former doctor at a Hospice, among the ailing group of old folk, raises a disturbing possibility – are the Lunch Club being targeted?
But as DCI Matt Burke races against time to prevent another death, how will he react when he comes face-to-face with the killer? And how will he handle the cold, chilling truth of his father's death?