Serial killers. Racism. Men in black. The very good looking and occasionally difficult Questore Alessandro Cenni has his second encounter with a psychopath who is also Umbria's first serial killer. The third victim, a young black child from Tunisia, suggests that these may be racist killings—the first two victims were also black Africans.

Cenni is not convinced and with twenty-five years as a police officer decides to follow the money. Money is always a motive for killing, even more so than passion, particularly when it involves millions.

The Questore's twin brother, Renato, formerly the Bishop of Urbino, has finally opened his first refugee center for children in a small village on Mount Subasio and Cenni's wife, the delightful Sonila, is the new Center's CEO. Love stories, including the love of children, are entwined with psychopathy in this new Cenni investigation. The commingling of Islam and Italian culture provides much of the intrigue, with the final realization that we are none of us so different from the other.

Not every hate crime is about hate—and not every raincoat hides a killer!