Chief Inspector Mike Dexter hoped the nightmares were behind him. But when a judge is found burned alive in his home — handcuffed to the bed — Dexter is thrust back into a past he’s tried desperately to forget. The method of murder is horrifyingly familiar, echoing a case that almost destroyed his wife, Tania, two decades earlier.
As Dexter battles a hostile press, an obstructive superior and a storm of public pressure, he begins to suspect the Eddie Challow, the psychopath who raped his wife and murdered her father, has been released from psychiatric care. And now he’s picking up where he left off.
Then a second body is discovered. And Dexter’s worst fears are realised — because this time, the killer is coming for someone even closer to home . . .
