A brutal hit-and-run killing opens the path to another 25-year-old crime  Ayoung couple are mown down in a hit-and-run incident. The girl is badlyinjured, the boy dies on the way to hospital. According to the solewitness the boy was in the middle of the road giving the approaching carthe finger. Operation Melody is launched with DI Faraday at the helm.It reveals a mother driven to desperation by the attacks on her son—and alink to a terrible crime from the early 1980s that the victim does notwant investigated. The investigation will rip apart a happy family, butthe high-ups are desperate for their cold cases to be cleared up,whatever the cost. And round it all circles ex-DC Paul Winter, who hashis own reasons for keeping the lid on an old crime.