This is the seventh book in the popular John Eisenmenger and Helena Flemming forensic mystery series. Eisenmenger's relationship with Helena Flemming has deteriorated to the point that Helena wants it to end, leaving Eisenmenger devastated. In order to cope, he throws himself back into his work as a forensic pathologist and is immediately consumed by a disturbing discovery. A man has been found stabbed to death on an industrial estate. The police think they have their suspect, but what Eisenmenger is about to find will throw the case wide open. DI Beverley Wharton is delighted to have Eisenmenger helping her and wants to pursue his lead as vigorously as possible, but DCI Lambert has other ideas. The son of a civil servant has gone missing and Lambert wants him found; it is the latest in a series of high-profile missing person cases. With all this going on, the accidental death of a motorcyclist seems trivial, except that the young pathologist who conducts the autopsy has a problem - there are one too many organs.