' This is brilliant stuff!' Peter James A murdered family A dying serial killer A missing child DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag On New Year's Day a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London their youngest child stolen away The murder weapon
- a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered
- leads Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard's Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as the Slaughter Man But the Slaughter Man has done his time & is now old & dying Can he really be back in the game? & was the murder of a happy family a mindless killing spree a grotesque homage by a copycat killer
- or a contract hit designed to frame a dying man? All Max knows is that he needs to find the missing child & stop the killer before he destroys another innocent family
- or finds his way to his own front door Even the happiest of families have black twisted secrets that someone is ready to kill for