Former Prime Minister Ian Lovegrove has a new mandate: find the killer. Ian Lovegrove's best years are behind him. Nine years earlier he was a short-lived 'accidental' Prime Minister, now he's an amiable failure facing retirement out in the cold. The first openly gay P.M. in Britain, Lovegrove is convinced he fumbled the one opportunity he had to live up to his promise.But Gwen Stirling-Price, his recently deceased predecessor at No. 10, is about to offer him his second chance.

In a cryptic message from her deathbed, Gwen instructs Lovegrove to make contact with a disgraced ex-Minister, Simon Crowther, and pose a question on her behalf. A puzzled Lovegrove does as he's told and arranges to meet Crowther the following day to hear the answer. But that same night Crowther is found dead from a gunshot wound. Despite assurances from the police that Crowther's death was suicide, Lovegrove is not convinced. So when further enquiries reveal a dark secret from Crowther's past, Lovegrove and his loyal assistant Yvonne go in search of the truth. As their investigation immerses them in the strange, privileged world of washed-up politicians, they uncover a high-level conspiracy with links to an old Westminster scandal. But some of the revelations hit close to home. Ian Lovegrove may have found his new purpose as a detective, but he's about to discover that exposing the truth will leave those he loves at the mercy of a killer.