With old friends like these who needs enemies? Its a question short mild mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself having in romantic desperation logged on to the Friends Reunited website searching for the girlfriends of his youth. Newson is not the only member of the Class of 88 who has been raking over the ashes of the past. As his old class begins to reassemble in cyberspace the years slip away and old feuds and passions burn hot once more. Meanwhile back in the present Newsons life is no less complicated. He is secretly in love with Natasha his lovely but very attached sergeant while comprehensively failing to solve a series of baffling and peculiarly gruesome murders. A school reunion is planned and as history begins to repeat itself the past crashes headlong into the present. Neither will ever be the same again.