Description

DCI Charlie Priest and his crew at Heckley Police Headquarters are presented with a bizarre murder that leads to the discovery of low-tech industrial espionage. But is selling your employer’s confidential records enough to warrant this particularly sadistic murder? Appearances deceive, and it transpires that the victim may have been chosen because of his facial resemblance to a convicted serial killer called the Midnight Strangler.

Priest is content in his work, and his home life shows signs of improving.  When his new girlfriend, a former world-class athlete known as La Gazelle, wins her comeback race his happiness overflows. But all is not well in his team as old enmities begin to surface. The next victim is murdered in even more bizarre circumstances, and Charlie begins to wonder if he himself is a catalyst that motivates the killer.

And the case has now become personal?