Publisher's Synopsis
When the eminent mathematician and former government advisor Marcus Ardleigh is found hanged in his home in the sleepy Lancashire village of Moulton Bank, at first it looks to be a simple case of suicide. Very soon, however, Inspector Steve Carmichael begins to suspect that the death is altogether more complicated than it appears. As his investigations lead him and his team ever deeper into Ardleigh's murky past and into tortured lives of his lukewarm friends and bitter enemies, dark and dangerous secrets begin to emerge...
