Raging with fury when their mayor is found murdered, the people of Fairoaks take the law into their own hands and form a lynch mob. Although Emmet Ford was only a kid – and swore he did not commit the crime – the angry men served their own brand of justice … with a noose around Ford’s neck. But Steele believes the boy was innocent … There’s still a killer at large. As the Virginians search stirs up a maelstrom of murder, blackmail, death and deceit, he makes a startling discovery which convinces him that if you give a killer enough rope … he’ll hang himself.