Josie McMullan, a young, up-and-coming journalist, was certain she had found the story that could be her big break. Two brothers and an uncle had all died in unexplained circumstances on the same stretch of notorious mountain road. That the uncle had been a suspected serial killer only added further to the intrigue. Ignoring the warnings of her world-weary literary agent and the unscrupulous locals attempting to thwart her investigations, Josie found herself freefalling through the half-truths and obfuscations within which answers were somewhere lurking. With a duplicitous police officer, a mysterious widow and a twisted cult member as guides, Josie slowly started to realise that no matter how far she ventured into the murky depths, there was no comfort to be drawn, just the icy chill of unnatural death.
