'Whip-smart and witty' Orlando Murrin
'What a terrific read! If Richard Osman had written Yes, Minister he might well have produced something like this' J.M. Hall
'An excellent job' Simon Brett
Politics can be murder. Sometimes literally.
Maxwell Murray's job is simple: keep his hapless boss Eliot Oakcroft - the MP for Middlebury-Mid - out of trouble. It's a full-time occupation. But when Miranda Cley asks for help freeing her imprisoned mother, an ordinary day turns extraordinary. Miranda's father was murdered - or so everyone believes. The trouble is, she's just seen him alive.
Max and his assistant Diana Burton can't help wafting the scent of a possible career-making miscarriage of justice Eliot's way, but as the mystery of Charlie Cley's disappearance unravels, they discover that some secrets are worth killing for.
A sharp and witty whodunnit from parliamentary insider David Weir, drawing on years of experience in the chaotic and crumbling corridors of power.
