Solicitor Richard Hargreaves' life is devastated when his business partner, Ian Mortimer, is found murdered and he becomes the prime suspect. With Detective Inspector MacNally already convinced of his guilt, Hargreaves is forced to investigate Mortimer's murder himself. In doing so, he makes a discovery far worse than anything that has happened so far and he finds himself on a crash course to the biggest trauma of his life.

Can the more astute Detective Sergeant Allen, in the face of his superior officer's intransigence, get to the bottom of the mystery before Hargreaves confronts his nightmare?