The year is 1995. Country copper Greg Bowker is the surprise appointment to the Homicide Squad, much to the chagrin of more senior applicants. Teamed with one of the few female detectives in the squad who also happens to be the chief commissioner's daughter, Bowker inherits the inquiry into the murder of a high-profile investigative reporter. His partner's critical injury in a car crash, and a second murder, combine to make Bowker's appointment a baptism of fire. His inquiries gradually unravel a tangle of misdeeds and lead him to a twenty-year-old unsolved murder, and to a cover up that threatens the very foundations of the police force.