Blood is memory without language... A local man is beaten to death on the Yorkshire moors. DI Isaac Mills and his partner, DS Leila Fry, immediately find the case interesting. What's more, the body was found by Mills' retired mentor, Max Thatcher. Mills wants nothing more than to prove himself to his old partner, but the components of this case are difficult to an aging team of cricket players, a daughter who is more than she seems, and a trail of blackmail. But Mills knows he has to step up and pull the threads of this case together, not only to show how the student has become the master, but also before someone else dies...