As if Aberdeen doesn't already seem to have an ongoing non-stop crime wave to keep our characters busy running around snapping the heads off each other, a convicted serial rapist has been released and wants to come home to his granny's house, causing no end of bother. Counterfeit goods and money are floating around someone's robbing jewelry stores with a baby and a sawn-off sledgehammer and a snitch turns up dead under a slab of concrete. Things run along furiously as Logan McRae wonders where exactly everyone gets off telling him he's got an attitude problem.