In a windswept field on the outskirts of Edinburgh lies the mutilated body of a young woman. As DI Rob Brennan looks on, he feels his heart freeze. Like Fiona Gow five years earlier, this girl has been strangled with her own stockings. Is this the work of an Edinburgh Ripper? The press certainly think so. Rob Brennan is determined to uncover the truth - however painful that might be. But truth is hard to come by in a world of police rivalries, media hysteria and copycat crime.