The first body is chained to a post: strangled and stabbed, with a tire still burning around what remains of the neck.
Is this a gangland execution or something much more complex? Someone is leaving small fragments of bone outside Detective Logan McRae's trailer, but he thinks he has more pressing matters on his mind. Rival drug gangs are fighting for control of the territory, a teenage couple is missing, someone is mutilating Asian immigrants in strange, horrifying witchcraft rituals, and Logan also has to deal with an ambitious new detective, a mountain of paperwork, and the unwelcome attention of both his superiors and the local crime bosses. Not to mention his immediate boss, the loud, abusive, perpetually screaming, irresistible Chief Constable Steel. When another body is found, the similarities between the murders can no longer be ignored. And maybe those fragments of bones tied with a pretty ribbon are more important than they seem…