One For Sorrow is a fast paced, sometimes brutal, romantic mystery revolving around the newly appointed Chief of Pathology Dr. Cecelia Montage. Cecelia was quite young to be appointed to this role but soon gets involved in the investigation of several gruesome killings. She is helped by her deputy, Dr. Sally Birch, and also by the re-kindling of her relationship with long lost love DCI Riley Blackman. However, she receives the unwanted attention of a brutal and clever work colleague and also that of a self-named serial killer - The Scientist. Can her friends save her in time?