'Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of lan Rankin... [he deserves a place] near, perhaps even at the top of the British crime writers' league.'

--The Times

The death is clearly suicide. And even when the second body is found, it seems a straightforward case: a jealous man has killed his lover and hanged himself. Hardly worth DCI Alan Banks cutting his weekend short.

But when Banks is pulled off the investigation soon after he discovers that the murder victim wasn't all he appeared to be, his alarm bells start ringing.

This case is far from closed, and Banks will risk everything to get to the truth.