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Sergeant Ruth Lake and DCI Greg Carver are on the hunt for a serial killer. But what they don’t realise is that the killer is hunting them, too.
The victims are found fully-dressed and carefully arranged, every inch of their bodies covered in intricate, cryptic tattoos. The media have dubbed it the work of the Thorn Killer, thanks to the primitive thorn method used to etch his victims. Lake and Carver have been tracking the killer for months, and a breakthrough feels imminent. But then the killer gets personal: the latest victim, a student found only a week earlier, is staged to look like Carver’s wife.
Pushed over the edge by this latest twist, Carver spirals into a self-destructive cycle of alcohol abuse. Now he lies near death, and the unreadable Lake stands over him with a gun. Did she shoot her boss? If not, why is she removing evidence from his apartment, staging a fake scene?
When Carver wakes from a coma, the night of the shooting is a blank, yet he is haunted by terrifying flashbacks and hallucinations. Then he begins to see lights and colours around people. Auras, the neurologist tells him – his brain, starved of oxygen after his trauma finding ways around damaged tissue, forging new connections. But Carver believes they give him insights into people’s unspoken feelings, and that Ruth is hiding something from him.
Ruth, too, is convinced that Carver is holding back; that remembers more than he admits. Does he know what she did? How can she hope to unravel the half-truths, hidden meanings, secrets and lies at the centre of this investigation when she has lied and lied herself?
All the while, the Thorn Killer is still at large, watching their every move - and plotting his next. Will Carver and Ruth pull together to stop him before he strikes again? Or will they be held captive by their own web of lies?
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