Publisher's Synopsis
Detective Inspector Charlie Priest is late for work for the first time in twenty years. Suffering a sloe gin hangover, he's already faced with the grisly evidence of crime in a local park, before one of his new constables finds a body. Hartley Goodrich is dead in his armchair, beside the flowerpot that caused the gaping gash in his head. Goodrich's financial advice has lost his clients a small fortune, so there's no shortage of suspects, but the enquiry means reopening an old case involving diamonds, drugs, stolen gold bullion...and danger. Danger which threatens everything Charlie holds dear.
