When a baby is stolen from a Scottish beach private investigator Charlie Cameron reluctantly agrees to take the case. While her parents are just yards away thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later her distraught father turns up at private investigator Charlie Cameron's office. Mark Hamilton believes he knows who has taken his daughter. And why. Against his better judgment Charlie takes the case - and when bodies are discovered he suspects this may not be an isolated crime. Is there a serial killer whose work has gone undetected for decades? Is baby Lily his latest victim? Charlie won't be able to give up on this case. Memories and guilt from his childhood won't let him. . .