This is the second novel in the crime series Chasing Shadows and is set in Glasgow. After a spate of murders DI Watson finds himself once again lead detective in the investigations. DS George Wilson is on the receiving end of a vicious attack and is badly injured and in a coma. His wife Melissa returns from visiting him in hospital to find someone in her house waiting for her. The novel ends with a dramatic fight for life as she has to fend off the man who tried to kill her husband. As with the last novel there is a twist at the end that only the reader discovers.