It is 1950 in Vancouver. Gamblers and brothel keepers bribe the city's untrained underpaid cops to look the other way. Grisly unsolved murders are piling up. Are these murders the work of a serial killer? The city's Chief Constable is too busy dealing with the problems presented by his pregnant 17 year old girlfriend to worry about it. Enter Chief Detective Inspector Walter Jackson, an honest cop. Pursuing the killer takes Jackson through the city's unlicensed bottle-clubs, strip-clubs and brothels. Add Jackson's love affair and his encounter with an ancient Coast Salish mystic and it all adds up to another suspenseful page turner.