Dorian Lough

Nick Levan – rugby captain, super-smart dresser, hot queen-bee gfriend… on the surface he seems to have everything and to the untrained eye, he’s the star of Roundview. Enter that pesky Matty – his reappearance has unsettled Nick and as he watches Matty slip effortlessly into new friendships, old wounds are re-opened. Nick realises that everything he thought he wanted - the approval of his father and the rugby success - is crushing him. Time to think again… but where will he turn? Mini? New mates? Old flames?

What looks like a simple drugs drop at a building site turns into a murder case when CID find a body buried in concrete. There are many that think the site owner, Michael Lafferty, is crooked - an eager young PC who thinks he's paying off his superior officers, plus several of the Polish workers that he exploits. All the while, Alex is waiting, convinced that she's recovering in the hospital and will wake up soon.

Lord Ashfordly underestimates the strength of local feeling about access to a footpath, and Greengrass becomes a chimney sweeper.