Locked in a car, abandoned on a massive rubbish dump and left to die in terrible circumstances, 20-year-old student Catherine McArdle's fate foreshadows a trail of death leading DCI Red Metcalfe through the darkest recesses of a serial killer's mind. Metcalfe and Warren are joined by DS Clarke and pathologist Rachel Price in a race to get ahead of a killer whose motives and methods seem beyond understanding.

A young student stung to death by bees, a dying woman overdosed on morphine, two female lovers hooked together like meat. As the terror mounts, DCI Metcalfe and his team race to get ahead of a killer whose motives seem beyond reason.

Red's sanity is stretched to the limit as Prof Robb helps him understand what lies behind the appalling suffering this killer is inflicting on the victims.

I thought it might be his wife or someone close to him, you have a good idea there :D :D