Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect & he's just been picked off the Aberdeen train & put straight into custody. But then another women is sexually abused & throttled to death. & suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer ï ½ two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. & itï ½s up to Resnick to put the record straight ï ½ & put the bastard where he belongs.