Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a mystery man

David Rogers was a doctor, handsome, charming and rich. He lived the lifestyle of a consultant – expensive clothes, top restaurants, exclusive clubs – until someone killed him in the hallway of his lovely million-plus-pound house. The odd thing was that none of his many girlfriends seemed to know where David Rogers worked or exactly what he did.

Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into the mystery what on earth he was up to and why someone wanted to shoot him in the head. Was it passion – there seemed to be plenty of that in Rogers’s life – professional jealousy, or plain old money?

The investigation reveals a more turbulent career behind the Dirty Doctor than at first appeared, a shadowy organisation called the Windhover Trust, and a trail of bodies leading to a deadlier conclusion…