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There is no easy way to die…

Unidentified to DI Luc Callanach and the newly promoted DCI Ava Turner, a serial killer provides Edinburgh firmly in his grip. The killer can be acquiring his victims in the coldest, many calculating way possible – engineering sluggish and painful fatalities by poison, along with his victims completely unacquainted with the medications flooding their bloodstream until it’s as well late.

But how do you catch a killer who hides in the shadows? A killer whose pleasure comes from viewing discomfort from afar? Confronted with their most challenging case yet, Callanach and Turner soon realise they encounter a seemingly difficult task…