DS Stella Mooney works too hard and drinks too much. She is about to walk into an affair with her guard down and her eyes wide open. She has nightmares she can't shake off...
... and a case that's going from bad to worse.

Janis Parken sexy, single, and dead - slashed fifty times in her Notting Hill flat. Stella Mooney has it down as either a drugs killing or a domestic. But events soon let her know that it's more complex than that... and more terrifying. Because there's someone out there who kills for the love of it; someone who has only just begun.