When it’s only 24 hours into a new case and PI Cliff Hardy’s already been heavied, you know that the job is going to get his full attention. Cliff has been hired by high-flying consultant Martin Price to find out who’s been supplying heroin to Price’s teenage daughter - who in turn has got her beautiful young stepmother hooked.

The leafy, well-heeled suburb of Lugarno seems an unlikely hotbed of drug-dealing and corruption, but Cliff is finding out the hard way that crime and violence come calling even at posh waterside addresses.