DCI Charlie Priest and his team are presented with a bizarre murder that leads to the discovery of low-tech industrial espionage, but is selling your employer's confidential records enough to warrant this particularly sadistic murder? Appearances deceive, and it transpirs that the victim may have attracted the murderer because of his facial resemblance to a local serial killer known as the Midnight Strangler. The next victim is murdered in even stranger circumstances, and with old enmities surfacing within his team, Charlie begins to wonder if he himself is the catalyst that motivates the killer...