Inspector George Gently

Gently and Bacchus awaken to the consequences of racism when a young girl is murdered.

A darker side of 1968 as the social landscape of the Western World is being shaken to its core.The indefatigable Chief Inspector George Gently and Detective Sergeant John Bacchus experience the inflated authority of their ‘social betters’ first hand, when a young girl is found dead in the passenger seat of a an upturned car registered to local aristocrats.

Gently and Bacchus are thrown into an emotionally-wrought case when a middle class couple’s adopted child is kidnapped.

Gently finds himself suspended from duty – powerless, unprotected and persecuted. Gently must confront his deepest fears and fight to the death