When Trevor Speed finds the body of a young man hanging from a tree in Kielder Forest, his life is turned upside down. At first sight it looks like another suicide. But DS Kitty Lockwood recalls the old KGB saying, 'Anyone can commit murder. But It takes an artist to fake a suicide.' Trevor Speed is so disturbed that he embarks on his own deadly path of self destruction. As Kitty Lockwood tries to find the truth she has her own demons to conquer before she can solve the mystery of the hanging man. Most people in her life think she's going crazy. Maybe, she thinks, they have a point... This is the third book in the Kitty Lockwood series.