A serial killer strikes.A woman dies.An innocent man is framed.HENRY SILK, star of a popular TV soap, is an actor with a bad-boy reputation. When the police link his car to a body found in woods near Nottingham, he is dismissive: they are mistaken.But with no alibi, no memory of the night of the killing and an increasingly watertight case against him, his disdain turns to horror when he is charged with murder.JENNIFER COTTON, the young detective constable who uncovers much of the damning evidence, has no doubt about the actor's guilt until an unexpected revelation turns her world on its head.Unceremoniously removed from the case and her reputation in tatters, Jennifer risks her future by pursuing her own investigation, determined now to prove Silk's innocence.As one startling discovery leads to another, she draws closer to the real killer, and closer to a potentially fatal confrontation.