The Metropole Hotel, Brighton: after a heady New Year's Eve ball, a
woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later,
another woman is attacked. Both victims' shoes are taken by the
offender. DS Roy Grace soon realizes that these new cases bear
remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes back in 1997.
The perpetrator was dubbed "Shoe Man" and was believed to have raped
five women before murdering his sixth victim and vanishing. Could this
be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced? Soon Grace and his team will
find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to identify and
save the life of the new sixth victim.