 Soemone goes to an awful lot of trouble to make the murder of a wealthy man look like a ritualistic killing, hanging his corpse from a Cersis tree (aka a Judas tree, after the one Judas Iscariot supposedly hanged himself from) and adorning it with branches. When the wealthy man is found to be far less wealthy than thought (he had given everything away except a huge life insurance policy), suspicion turns to his wife, who already has a boyfriend on the side.