Once she had been beautiful; now she was eight days dead her body slashed repeatedly. At first shes just Jane Doe of Notting Hill then DS Stella Mooney finds a suspect. But while he is in custody another body is discovered butchered in the same way. It seems that Stella and her team are looking for that most dangerous of creatures: someone who kills to feed a terrible appetite. In fact they are up against something even more terrifying. There are two people involved; and one of them - the dominant one - is a woman ...