Brilliant, passionate and eccentric, clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill has an extraodinary understanding of the criminal mind, enabling him to empathize with both victim and murderer. All the serial killers Dr. Hill encountered have been behind bars....until now. In the northern English town of Bradfield, three men have been found tortured and mutilated. Convinced that these deaths are part of a serial pattern, Detective Inspector Carol Jordan asks Dr. Hill for his help locating the killer.