<p>The book that launched a legend: the first novel in the acclaimed Bob Skinner series.<br><br>As head of Edinburgh''s CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all... but even he is shocked by the savagely mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. The victim is identified as a successful young lawyer, and the motive for the brutal death remains a mystery. Then further seemingly random killings in the city begin to suggest a vicious serial killer is on the rampage. But when the lawyer''s fiancee is also murdered, Skinner realises that someone is in deadly earnest...</p>