The last works Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then Jamie hears her scream and the line goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished, leaving her neatly parked car and mobile phone behind. That same afternoon, workmen digging up a park in another part of the city unearth the remains of a women in her early twenties, which have lain undiscovered for thirty years. At first, to Roy Grace and his team, these two events seem completely unconnected. But then a second young women in Brighton goes missing - and yet another body from the past surfaces. Meanwhile, an eminent London psychiatrist meets a man who claims to know information about Logan. And Roy Grace has the chilling realisation that this information holds the key to both the past and present crimes . . . Does Brighton have its first serial killer in over eighty years?