After barely surviving the events of The Killer Trail, Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder once again finds himself at the centre of a high-profile murder case: Marvin Goodwin, a young man who falls on the extreme end of the autism spectrum, is found covered with blood at the suspected murder scene of a local businessman. When Chris Ryder is called in to find out what he can about the young man, he finds that the weight of blood might just be too much for him to bear."--Publisher.