George Markham, a sexual predator, kills Mandy, the daughter of millionaire Patrick Kelly. This is not the first and not the last murder on his account. The police were scrambling to find the culprit. The forces of law and order and the underworld converge in a big hunt for the lady killer. The investigation involves female detective Kate Burrows, a police officer with whom Patrick Kelly falls in love. Their tender, passionate love sounds like a dissonance with the events taking place in the novel.