Description: The
first victim is a young Arab girl. Her obscenely mutilated corpse is
found in some bushes on the slopes of Mount Scopus. She has been drugged
with heroin, carved up with chilling care and skill. The mixture of
calculation and frenzy sends a shockwave through a society where warfare
and terrorism are everyday facts of life - but where sex murders and
serial killers are virtually unknown. Chief Inspector Daniel Shalom
Sharavi, himself a Yemenite Jew, takes charge of the case, bringing
together a team as exotic and disparate as Jerusalem itself.
Methodically and desperately slowly, they uncover a complex trail that
leads to a point where private psychosis and public politics threaten to