An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes finding his killer difficult ? why would anyone harm an elderly man? What threat could he possibly be to anyone?

With no apparent motive, DS George Cross canvases the community for potential suspects but the man was known as generous, charitable, community-minded. Each interview about who the man is muddies the picture further. So Cross decides to look for who he was revealing a past that is far less honourable than his present . . .