A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For newly appointed Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority - but he is haunted by the young victim. Meanwhile the city is horrified by a series of bloody killings. McLean is convinced that these deaths are somehow connected to the terrible ceremonial killing of the girl all those years ago. It is an irrational almost supernatural theory. And one which will lead McLean closer to the heart of a terrifying and ancient evil…

Part of the Inspector McLean series.