Tom clashes with Chris when she fights passionately to save a friend who is accused on an unsolved fifty-year-old murder.
Tom and Chris' longstanding friendship is put in jeopardy when Chris finds a fifty-year-old journal in her cellar. The journal appears to have been owned by a young woman and Chris discovers that it is the true account of a romance gone wrong and murder. Chris brings the journal to Tom, asking him to discover the identity of the murderer and bring them to justice. There are no names used in the journal, but nevertheless Tom works out that the owner is a local spinster — the last person you'd ever suspect of hiding a murder for fifty years.
Now that the owner of the journal has been revealed, Chris wants the investigation dropped; she doesn't want to see this woman put behind bars. Tom isn't keen on throwing the woman in the cells either, but a murder has been committed and he has no choice but to continue with his enquiries. This puts Tom and Chris, normally allies, head to head, with Chris aggressively defending the woman and Tom bringing her in to face the murder charges.
But all is not what it seems. Tom begins a desperate search to uncover the truth behind the crime. It doesn't help when the woman confesses to the murder, claiming that all these years of silence have worn heavily on her heart. PJ brings the unfortunate news that it is time to charge her and inform homicide that they have a case for them. Tom convinces PJ to wait just a little longer, and gets a hunch that if they look hard enough into the case's history they may be able to prove the murder was all in the mind.
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