A killer is terrorizing a Scottish college town—and a police detective fears that his ex-wife may be in the crosshairs . . .
When a university lecturer is stalked by one of her own students, DI Jim Carruthers is horrified to discover that the academic is none other than his ex-wife, Mairi. It's especially alarming since another student has just been brutally attacked and left for dead—and the stalker and killer may be one and the same.
Putting his personal feelings for newly appointed DCI Sandra McTavish aside for the moment, Carruthers focuses on leading his team on the hunt after two more victims are found, with the crimes only growing more gruesome. What is the victims' connection to a cult in North America, which seems to be getting a stranglehold in a Scottish university? Why have these women been targeted? And who is doing the killing? As fear spreads through Castletown, Carruthers must race to stop this depraved murderer . . .
