Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings, no kind of pattern or motive, an entirely different method of murder each time, and nothing that connects the victims except for the fact that the little fingers of their right hands have been severed. A clever, sardonic and constantly surprising thriller that succeeds in subverting the reader's expectation at every fresh turn of the ever-twisting plot.