The head of a charity for homeless ex-servicemen commits suicide in Lichfield Cathedral. Or does he? An ex-soldier he has helped teams up with a purple-haired rebel teenaged girl, an Asian solicitor who works for Citizens Advice in her spare time and a Detective Sergeant of Polish descent to prove it was murder. Their investigation takes them into the murky world of false accounting, people-trafficking and modern-day slavery, before they discover the harsh truth...