It's the trial - and scandal - of the decade: Greta Grahame, the beautiful young wife of Sir Peter Robinson MP, is accused of conspiring to murder her predecessor, Peter's first wife Lady Anne. The prosecution case depends heavily on one witness - Greta's stepson Thomas, who was present on the night two hitmen broke into their ancestral home. His testimony steadfastly links Greta to the killers. But the boy's motives are unclear. Is he so crazed by grief that he would frame his stepmother for murder? Or is he telling the truth - that this cunning young woman will stop at nothing in her pursuit of wealth and status? Simon Tolkien is the grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien.