The body of a young blonde man found burnt and tortured in a Manchester canal. He is discovered to be a journalism student who claimed he was onto the story of a lifetime. The area where he was murdered was subject to a land dispute. But is his death leading the police on a false trail?

A young woman is adamant she remembers a childhood twin brother, but her father swears she’s an only child. She has connections to the first victim and now a second young blonde is missing.

DCI Rachel King and her East Manchester CID team must determine what links this all together, but she has a secret of her own - the love of her life is a well-known villain and has moved in next door!

The last thing Rachel needs is her daughters’ father reappearing, especially when everything points to his involvement in her investigation. Or is she being led to drawn connections which aren’t there? And if so, who is pulling her strings?

As the murders continue, can Rachel keep her family together and stop the killer?