Inheritance can be murder...

Sebastian Pallander's death leaves behind a multi-billion-dollar financial estate and a castle in the Cairngorms. His family are torn apart, not by grief but by anger at Sebastian's will - and the fact that the great man left them with nothing more than pocket change.

Soon Sebastian's eldest son dies in mysterious circumstances, and DI Salt and DS Blackstock begin to suspect the the people listed on the will might not be future millionaires; they might be future victims.

Because when this much money is at stake, people are capable of almost anything. And if Salt and Blackstock are right, someone is killing their way into the inheritance - once family member at a time...