As a country club is due to open on Witches' Hill, a body is discovered with its throat cut. The next day a fragment of a legendary witches' curse upon anyone who desecrates their place of worship is sent to a local paper. As Robert Skinner begins his grizzly investigation, a second murder occurs.
A murder in an affluent Edinburgh suburb leaves Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner baffled. Then a case of property fraud takes Skinner in a new direction. Moving from Scotland to Spain to a climax in Edinburgh, this thriller follows a trail involving vice, corruption and the merchants of death.
An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group supposedly demanding political separation from Britain, but as atrocities escalate, Head of CID Bob Skinner realizes this is no gang of fanatics, but a highly professional team.
As head of Edinburgh's CID, Bob Skinner has seen it all, but even he is shocked by the mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. The motive for the brutal murder remains a mystery, until an elaborate smokescreen emerges which shrouds an intricate conspiracy.
