Joseph O'Laughlin is a successful psychiatrist, the best specialist in dangerous phobias. He cannot refuse when the gloomy Inspector Ruiz asks him to examine the body of a girl just found by the police. The main version is an attack by a maniac; more than twenty stab wounds were found on the victim’s body, but O’Loughlin understands that the girl inflicted most of the wounds, including the fatal one, on herself. He recognizes the victim as his former patient and... becomes the main suspect in a murder case - someone plants the police with evidence indicating his guilt. The action takes place on the streets of majestic London and cloudy Liverpool, where every stranger glimpsed in the fog could turn out to be a murderer or the next victim. A police inspector, a colleague at work, a charming patient - under what mask is the enemy hiding? Who is he - a madman maniac or a cold-blooded criminal, manipulating the minds of his victims and forcing them to commit painful suicides? A psychiatrist begins a deadly investigation. A smart, inventive and truly scary novel, not inferior to such bestsellers as “I Kill” by Giorgio Faletti and “The Psychiatrist” by Michael Fisher. The book has already been translated into 15 languages, and the BBC is preparing a film adaptation.