Jane was the first person Inspector Ringer phoned when he was confronted by the original victim’s body. ‘No-one can read a crime scene like you can, Jane,’ he had said. ‘I remember it like yesterday’. He remembered too their brief affair twenty-three years before – when he was a newly minted detective and Jane, four years his senior, was a comparative novice in forensic psychiatry. Now, all these years later, Jane Halifax is an acknowledged expert in her field, a psychological sleuth without peer. But will either of them be able to put their past behind them as they seek to stop a cruel and pitiless killer?