Detective Inspector Thorpe is due for retirement but takes on one last case before hanging up his gloves which turns out to be his hardest to date. There is a serial killer on the loose in Plymouth and the surrounding area which both he and Detective Sergeant Carter are finding hard to track down.When an International author Byron Maddocks is murdered, the Sun newspaper send Investigative Reporter and personal friend of the author Jack Dempsey to try and make sense of the death and give the newspaper the story of a lifetime.Set-in modern-day Plymouth, this explosive thriller takes us through the lives of both the Police Officers and the serial killer ending in a thrilling battle of cat and mouse resulting in a twist in the ending setting the question, ‘Do you really know who your neighbour is?’