When a local arts charity, the Kavanaugh Trust, hires Liverpool lawyer and amateur detective Harry Devlin to contest the will of a former benefactor, little does Harry realise he's about to tackle his most intriguing case.
Soon afterwards the Chairman of the Trust is found dead, fallen from the third floor window of a local hotel, and Harry cannot resist investigating further. What was Luke Dessaur doing there? Was it suicide? An accident? Or was he pushed?
As Harry is about to discover, beneath the respectable facade of the Kavanaugh Trust lie shocking secrets.