When Detective Inspector Joe Hogarth is called to a crime scene, he finds a grim and confusing murder. The victim was bound to a chair and stabbed to death. The method suggests a gangland execution. But why did the killer administer a blissful overdose before the fatal stabbing?
Clues are thin on the ground. But not for long…
Another body is soon discovered, bearing all the hallmarks of the first victim – down to every torturous detail.
Hogarth must race against the clock to crack the clues before another victim dies. And in the background, a man from Hogarth’s past is released from prison - with one thing on his mind.
Revenge.
Fighting crime on all sides, working through layers of sin, temptation and greed Hogarth must track the motive and the killer before more blood is spilled – and all the while he must watch his back… because a time of reckoning is coming.
When Detective Inspector Joe Hogarth is called to a crime scene, he finds a grim and confusing murder. The victim was bound to a chair and stabbed to death. The method suggests a gangland execution. But why did the killer administer a blissful overdose before the fatal stabbing?
Clues are thin on the ground. But not for long…
Another body is soon discovered, bearing all the hallmarks of the first victim – down to every torturous detail.
Hogarth must race against the clock to crack the clues before another victim dies. And in the background, a man from Hogarth’s past is released from prison - with one thing on his mind.
Revenge.
Fighting crime on all sides, working through layers of sin, temptation and greed Hogarth must track the motive and the killer before more blood is spilled – and all the while he must watch his back… because a time of reckoning is coming.