Christmas approaches. A killer dressed as a clown haunts the streets of Manchester. This is his reckoning. DCI Tom Caton and forensic profiler Kate Webb must follow the trail from the site of the old mass cholera graves, through the penthouse opulence of canalside apartments, to the Victorian Gothic grandeur of the Town Hall. Time is running out for Tom, Kate, and the City. The first in the acclaimed British Crime Fiction Series - the DCI Tom Caton Manchester Murder Mysteries. Winner of the 2011ePublishing Consortium Writers Award 2011, shortlisted for the Amazon Breakthrough Debut Novel Award, and the LongBarn Books Debut Novel Award.