Throw me to the wolves

In the aftermath of Brexit the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames and the tabloids are aflame accusing Mr. Wolphram the woman's former teacher and the ultimate media quarry: mysterious friendless and eccentric. Charged with investigating this crime is Ander once a student of Mr. Wolphram's. As he interviews pupils who both defend and defame their oddball teacher he must face a story from decades back that he has tried hard to forget. Ander recalls his best friend Danny who disappeared from their elite English boarding school--a place of routine physical and psychological abuse--at the peak of IRA terror. In the midst of the present murder investigation racked by suppressed memories he also discovers something vital about Mr. Wolphram's true character. Faced with Wolphram's case Ander must turn to his own memory which proves the ultimate source of both mystery and revelation.