A search for a missing girl leads detective Alex Rainer into a run-down apartment in Whitechapel, London. Inside, he finds one of the most horrific scenes he's seen in his twenty-year career.
A mass of dismembered body parts arranged on the victim's bed to resemble a human figure, perfectly assembled with methodical precision.
And in the victim's severed hand, a ringing phone.
"Welcome to my little puzzle, detective. Can you solve it before the time is up?"
Alex soon discovers that a serial killer-obsessed psychopath has chosen him as an unwilling participant in his next game of death. Each murder scene leads to the next, with the promise that the final stage will unveil the person responsible.
But to get there, Alex must use his vast knowledge of historical killers to decipher the clues left behind, as each murder scene pays a disturbing tribute to an unsolved mystery of the world.
Amidst a fog-covered London, Alex must track down the killer dubbed the Angel of Death before he too becomes one of history's uncaptured serial killers.
