Liverpool DCI Eve Clay hunts a sadistic killer targeting OAPs in Merseyside. Three nights. Three brutal murders. And a killer with a warped imagination. In a smart part of Liverpool, old men and women are being murdered in their beds. DCI Eve Clay is baffled. These people are all nearing the end of their lives. Who would want to kill them? Why? Only one woman has the answer. And she is deaf, mute, and locked up in an exclusive psychiatric ward. As Eve tries desperately to communicate with this woman, and hunt down the killer, her own shadowy past comes back to haunt her...