When the body of a young woman is discovered near the banks of the
River Tiber, Nic Costa is drawn into a dark and dangerous underworld.
When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the banks of the
River Tiber, Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes she has the
victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She's wrong. Leo
Falcone, the chief inspector, knows this case is recent history and the
horror is still very much alive.
So begins an investigation that will take Nic Costa and his team deep
into the dark underworld of modern day Rome's most disturbing and
sinister secrets. As they proceed with their enquiries, it soon becomes
clear that someone is trying very hard to kill Teresa Lupo. And now
another beautiful young woman has gone missing ...