The first novel in Lin Anderson's acclaimed series featuring forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod.
A teenage boy is found mutilated and murdered in a Glasgow flat. Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called to the scene, but her grim task is made even more unsettling than normal by the boy's remarkable resemblance to her - and by the fact that she gave up a baby boy for adoption seventeen years ago.
Racked with guilt, she sets out to find the boy's killer and determine whether he is her long-lost son - but in doing so, she immerses herself in the sinister world of an internet paedophile ring. Some very powerful men have a lot to lose if she succeeds, and everything to gain if she dies.