Ridley privately accepts to help jazz singer Eve Marbury, who returned from Chicago for a family funeral, searching for her brother who went missing 40 years ago as a kid. Shortly after, Ridley is asked as consultant with the murder of a woman which appears to be connected to the case, as Julie Conway was the surprise heir of a derelict cottage, instead of the family of wealthy Jed Varnham. Ridley trails the missing brother to record store owner and radio DJ Ray Trevice, car junk yard owner Tony Alderford and car mechanic Duncan Darwin, who puts Ridley on the trail of a crucial child abuse cover-up.
—KGF Vissers