Krimi. It's a sweltering summer in Hull. Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy and the rest of the Serious and Organized Crime Unit are being pushed to the brink by the local drug trade as a sadistic new boss takes over and violent crime escalates. Then, McAvoy and DS Trish Pharoah are distracted by something deadlier: a serial murderer with a taste for the macabre. But when one of McAvoy's fellow officers is blackmailed by the local drug kingpin, McAvoy's life and that of his wife and two young children is suddenly in jeopardy