Joe's mum is dead. Killed alongside a stranger in a hit-and-run car crash. Her last words, a message for someone he's never heard of. All he's got is a trail of secrets and lies, when all he wants is the truth. Joe's an ordinary boy living with his mum on a rough London estate. But when she is killed in a hit-and-run car crash, he's sure there's more to her death than meets the eye. His investigation takes him on a dangerous journey. Chased by jewel-thieves and gangsters, he finds himself at an abandoned mansion that once belonged to a scandalous couple: a Sixties model and a vanished Lord. It's here that Joe begins to uncover the truth of his extraordinary inheritance .