When notorious millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs himself from the old oak tree in front of his Kent mansion his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of self-serving is widespread the carnage most acute amongst those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow a young woman is found savagely murdered in her home. The genteel community is stunned by what appears a vicious random attack. When DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate she soon discovers that behind the murder lurks a tangled web of lies. A web that will spiral through the local community through Scotland and ultimately right back to a swinging rope hundreds of miles away.