Men Alive were heading for the charts when their song drove a man to death. Years later, reunited at a recording studio in an idyllic Highland castle, they are dying one by one. Paying at last for their past?

First to find the bodies is Dan Thorne, drummer, twenty-two, newcomer to the studio and its eccentric community. His life has been lurching from meltdown to disaster, but he's determined to bounce back, even though he's now in a murder mystery, at a remote castle, where everyone's a suspect and he's the prime witness.

Dan has allies: his ex-girlfriend, his broken bandmate, a prickly engineer and an irrepressible French detective. They're not a team; their ambitions collide. But Dan needs them all to unlock the castle's secrets, to keep his hopes - and his friends - alive.

Watching the wake dissolve into distance, watching with a girl whose stories he can't trust, Dan Thorne, drummer of a washed-up band, stands too close to a disappearance.

It happens at one in the morning, only yards from where Dan and Jen the storyteller lean against the ferry's rail. They're unaware, but already caught in the web of lies around the vanishing passenger.

In the morning Dan fights a thief for a stolen bag. Inside, a suicide note and a clue that implicates his own sister. He's passing nothing to the police till he's worked out what's real, even though Dan and Jen are soon suspects, and the story Jen tells of their night together horrifies him.

Taking you back to the 1990s, through Northern England, Northern Frace and the North Sea, The Kiss I'd Kill For is a multi-level mystery trip with a narrator who has a lot to learn.