Smooth-tongued divorce lawyer Richard Pryce is bludgeoned to death in his London home.
Scrawled on the wall beside the body: the number 182.
What does it mean? And who was it at his front door just minutes before he died and while he was still talking on the phone?
Confronted with the most baffling of mysteries, the police are forced to turn to disgraced private investigator Daniel Hawthorne.
As the death toll rises, Hawthorne confronts a tangle of secrets while at the same time doing everything he can to conceal his own past.
