Cnut's dictionary: Hospital – a place to die.

For the second time in his career, Cnut finds himself locked in a mental battle with a serial killer in a hospital, with hundreds of potential perpetrators. At first, the intimate trophies the killer removes from his victims leads the team to believe that the motive is sexual; then it seems that the murders could be racially motivated. Both theories are soon disproved, when different body parts are taken, and other nationalities are involved. Cnut realises that he is being led up the garden path deliberately, and looks in a different direction – the right one – but one that brings both him and Ilse into deadly danger.