Inspector Stephen Villani, who was with his brothers in kinship for a while as a child, is head of homicide in Melbourne, Australia. He has a full agenda: a murdered woman in a penthouse apartment, three men butchered in a sadistic rampage, a tattoofaced drug dealer corrupting his rebellious daughter, a crumbling marriage. With each twist and every turn of this taut crime novel, Villani is forced to question whom he can trust.