DI Lily Bankhurst, a single parent with health problems and psychological scarring from a previous serial murder case, is asked to investigate two brutal murders in Aberdeen. The cases quickly run cold, and she comes under increasing pressure from her uncompromising DCI, Amanda Farrell, on secondment from The Met. A further murder, in a different part of the city and with a different MO, seems entirely unrelated, but Bankhurst feels they might be connected. Against the wishes of senior colleagues, she begins to peel back the layers of the murders. At times she wishes she hadn’t…