Quigg has a new partner - DS Jane Dwyer from Vice, but it's just for one case, and she doesn't like him. But they have to make the best of a bad pairing because a woman has been murdered and it looks like a vampire is feeding in Highgate. Rodney Crankshank is still on the trail of the person who murdered his colleagues at Bulldog Investigations, but its dangerous work. Lucy has decided to go back home to Quigg, but someone is determined to stop her.