Chief Inspector Jacobson and DS Kerr had been on leave when the body of a young black man, Darren McGee, had been fished out of the River Crow. The autopsy points to suicide by drowning. But now Darren's cousin, Paul Shaw, is in town - a top notch investigative journalist with an axe to grind and a claim that Darren had really been the victim of a racially-motivated murder. Jacobson isn't convinced, but when Paul Shaw turns up dead they are faced with a baffling double murder to investigate. And a dangerous confrontation lies ahead with the murky world of the Far Right.