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Detective Isla Bran has a condition that steadily erases her short-term memories. When the sole witness to a decade-old murder resurfaces, Isla has days — maybe hours — before the details slip away for good.

Nothing much happens in Ashcombe — which is exactly why Edith moved there. Then a body turns up in the rain behind her shop.

The station Cassiopeia is scheduled for decommission when its skeleton crew intercepts a transmission from a vessel that vanished forty years ago.