When Andrew Cope and his ex-policewoman wife Kathy, proprietors of an
unsuccessful detective agency, up to their necks in debt and on the
verge of losing their home, are found dead in their fume-filled car,
there are few who doubt that they have simply taken the easy way out.
But
DCI Lloyd knew Kathy Cope, and doesn't believe she was a quitter, and
when DI Judy Hill is called out to the murder of matriarch Angela
Esterbrook, Lloyd's doubts appears to be vindicated; and the Copes'
apparent suicide turns out to be just the curtain-raiser on a tragedy of
Shakespearean proportions . . .