After a promising young journalist’s suicide is called into question, DCI Lawrence Forrester and DS Rebecca Palmer must investigate who else might have had a hand in his death. Among those close to him, there seems to be no shortage of possibilities, from the stepfather he clashed with over money to the women he mistreated, and the friend whose secret he was threatening to share. But there is also evidence to suggest he had uncovered a much bigger story than those he reported for his local paper. And what of the quirky artist who was, by all accounts, the last person to see him alive?