Publisher's Synopsis
An international sports star is found murdered - her face mutilated in a bizarre, ritualistic manner. What is the significance of the poetic text the killer has left at the crime scene? Why did he surgically remove the victim's left eye? And can a Cambridge lecturer help the police reconstruct the killer's fantasy in time to save her own life? Inspector John Underwood and his team work frantically to piece together the last hours of Olympic athlete Lucy Harrington. But another murder will take place before Stussmann finds the key to understanding the killer's terrifying motive.
