After Jackson Brodie's car breaks down, he tries to help an old woman who crashes her car through a barrier onto the railway tracks. After an encounter with an oncoming train, he wakes up in hospital and meets Reggie, a young woman who works as a nanny and who saved him by performing CPR. She subsequently asks Brodie for help in locating her employer Dr. Joanna Hunter who, according to Joanna's husband, has gone off to visit an aunt. The only thing is, Joanna had mentioned on several occasions that she had no family whatsoever. Brodie thinks she may be the victim of a crime that has its origins in long ago events. Meanwhile, Brodie is being pestered by another client who hired him to follow his wife, convinced she is having an affair.
—garykmcd