Angela Morgan is a partner in prominent firm of political lobbyists and engaged to be married to a prominent Treasury Minister. She is also missing.... Some very poisonous poison-pen letters and a disputed legacy complicate the case when Angela is found very, very dead. Detective Inspector John McLeish, whose love life with Francesca Wilson is under strain, is called in to negotiate the undercurrents of Whitehall and the back-stabbing of the boardroom. To make sense of the situation, both McLeish and Francesca take inspiration from the maxim: Start with the balance sheet. That's where the bodies are