Gypsy — David Menon

Highly esteemed television journalist Danny Holdsworth returns to his home town and begins a search for answers to the still unsolved murder of his childhood best friend Nigel Slater thirty years ago. Coming back Danny runs into his old flame, Caroline, the girl he'd once been engaged to but who is now trapped in an unhappy marriage to Danny's old childhood nemisis, Ben Reynolds, a man who is so desperate to save his rapidly failing haulage business that he gets involved in a potentially fatal illegal trade. Caroline would love to try and get through to the Danny she fell in love with all those years ago and who she thought had been in love with her. But she's ignoring Danny's sexuality and in any case, he has eyes for someone else, and when Caroline finds out who the someone else is she doesn't react well. But as he gets closer to identifying Nigel's killer, a surprise visit from Danny's estranged mother leads him to discover a devastating truth about his own identity that has a shocking connection to Nigel's murder. The end turns out to be only just the beginning of all the revelations that have been held like time bombs in a small Peak District community.