A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil, an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man — or just a common-or-garden serial killer?
Before PC Peter Grant can get his head around the case, a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire add to his caseload.
So far, so London.
But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on a housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans and inhabited by the truly desperate.
Is there a connection?
And if there is, why, oh why, did it have to be South of the River?