This is the second investigation in the Detective Tom Grant series and takes us back to the start of his career in the major crime's unit of the London Police Force. Partnering with long time senior detective Ed Morgan. The case revolves around the police, serial murder victims, and the killer as the story works it way through the lives of the victims and the background of the serial killer. The crimes take place in 1993 and the evolving police usage of technologies involving the internet, profiling and forensics. The reader gets to know the killer and be a part of the life experiences that molded him by glimpsing into his dysfunctional childhood.