Two grisly murders. Three days apart. One brutal killer?The call comes at midnight on a stormy March night. A body has been found hanging from a tree on Hardwick Heath. In the dead man's pocket is a handwritten SORRY. LIFE IS JUST TOO HARD. LOVE TO YOU ALL.Detective Nicki's instincts tell her this was no suicide - but someone has gone to a lot of trouble to make it look like one.Three days later, a second body is found floating in a pond, just a few miles away. But the victim didn't drown.The police are treating the deaths as separate cases. Then Nicki uncovers a link between the two dead men - and the case takes a shocking twist.As she unearths a series of secrets stretching back twenty years, Nicki and her team find themselves in a race against time before more people die.