You can never truly bury the past.Eighteen years ago, a baby went missing - snatched from under his parents' eyes. He was never seen again.Eighteen years ago, Ian Turner took part in a robbery. His partner-in-crime, a habitual crook called Alan Milner, hit a man and put the poor guy in a coma. Ian got himself a cast-iron alibi for that night but Alan was eventually caught and sent to prison.Now, eighteen years later, Alan Milner's out of prison - and Ian's scared.Meanwhile, the missing baby, now an adult, is still missing.A dead body is found on a canal boat, the back of his head caved in. DI Benedict Paige soon learns that the victim was a manipulative bully and a thug. No one liked him. But was he involved in the abduction of that baby? As Benedict trawls through the murky evidence, he knows the two cases are somehow entwined.But how exactly?