When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to
discover that it contains a woman's severed leg.
Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less
alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be
responsible--and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and
unspeakable brutality.
With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not
the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into
the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts
occur, time is running