When an Edinburgh car showroom is torched, leaving a charred body among the burnt-out luxury cars, DCC Bob Skinner wonders if a life of crime has finally caught up with one of the city's
most elusive villains. But the corpse turns out not to be that of Jackie Charles, the owner of the showroom, but his wife Carole. Skinner now finds himself on the same side as his old enemy
in the search for the killer.