When a doctor is found brutally murdered in the lurid section of London
aptly named "Devil's Acre," even its most hardened residents are
stunned. But shock soon turns to horror when Inspector Thomas Pitt
discovers three more bodies with the same gruesome "calling card" a stab
wound in the back and a rather inexpertly executed mutilation. As Pitt
and his wife, Charlotte, race against time to find the killer, a
treacherous mystery unfolds. And no one, not the lowest brand of ruffian
or the most established aristocrat, will escape unscathed.