The Crucifixion Killer is stalking Glasgow, leaving victims' mutilated
bodies in a Christ-like pose. Detective Chief Inspector Alan McAlpine is
drafted in to lead the hunt, supported by local officers Detective
Inspector Anderson and Detective Sergeant Costello.
But the past holds horrific memories for McAlpine. He last worked this
beat some twenty years earlier, when he was assigned to guard a
woman--faceless after a sadistic acid attack--at a Glasgow hospital. An
obsession was born in that hospital room that has never quite left
McAlpine and now it seems to be resurfacing. As the chase to halt the
gruesome murders intensifies, so Anderson and Costello find chilling
cause for concern uncomfortably close to home . . .