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Within the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's solitary life is disturbed by a call from his estranged girlfriend, informing him his seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is working crazy, uneven by the abduction and rape he thinks he must have avoided. Meanwhile, in one's heart of London, the takedown of a violent criminal goes badly, and Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch is anxious concerning the reasoned explanations why, an uneasiness that's worsened when she begins to think she's being stalked.Maddy and Joe have an association, a short and awkward experience decades before that's left a trace of lingering regret. In Ash & Bone their lifestyles link again whenever a second telephone call persuades the unsettled, unhappy Elder out-of retirement, simply to discover that a cold case includes a devastating present day effect.