Having a Ruby Anniversary balloon flight over Broadland is an exciting big tick off Jack’s bucket list, and one that gives a whole new perspective to his life as a River Ranger … and all the more so when he spots something strange and mysterious in the reed-beds below.
Suspicions aroused, his ‘copper’s instinct’ leads to a sinister finding and, ultimately, disclosures of past wrongs, inevitable greed and unpunished evil. Undaunted, Jack pursues his quest for truth and justice amongst the rivers and boatyards of his beloved Broads, unearthing skeletons in more than one family’s cupboard, and tragedy and long-sought reckoning in another’s.