Edinburgh's gorgeous Detective Sergeant Honey Laird has finally cleared her overflowing desk and is looking forward to spending some time with her husband, when an email from her old school friend provokes yet another difficult case. Honey soon finds herself trying to babysit her friend's ex-husband Andrew: a trigger-happy, former SAS officer, with a temper, a head injury and a penchant for attractive women. When Andrew's prized Springer spaniel pups go missing. Honey has no clues until Henry Colebrook, a wealthy supermarket mogul, also disappears - and his body turns up in an isolated loch...