Following on from her narrow brush with death at the hands of psychopathic genius, Julian Radcliffe, Detective Chief Inspector Julie Rutter finds herself pitted against her new foe on a larger canvas than ever before. Literally. Assigned to investigate a major Art theft, she discovers that the case crosses frontiers and takes her to the Austrian Alps, where an even more sinister scenario begins to emerge. As the investigation escalates and falls apart around her, she has to face questions about her own future - even whether she has one at all.