When upmarket gossip columnist, Simon Laser, receives an anonymous letter threatening the lives of his friends, he is not too concerned. However, when a man claiming to be his secret lover is found brutally murdered, forensic psychiatrist Jane Halifax begins her own investigation. Analysing Simon's behaviour, Jane realises he may be capable of murder. The potentially lethal question remains how...Jane realises that a lot rests upon her conclusions, including her own safety.

After Jane Halifax testifies that a man accused of stalking is just a harmless pest, the woman he stalked is shot, and the evidence points to him. After he is arrested, Jane starts to think that the police have got the wrong man.

Jane Halifax must unravel the family secrets of a young girl accused of murder.