Don't say you love me . . . When the body of a young woman is found brutally slain on Valentine's Day the press reacts with barely disguised glee. For DCI Antonia Hawkins, still recovering from the terrible wounds inflicted by another killer, the pressure of another high-profile murder investigation could barely be worse timed. Battling her own physical limitations and under pressure from a new member of the team whose ambition to displace her is hard to conceal, Hawkins must discover not just who killed the first victim, but why - or watch helplessly as others die at the hands of a monster who has been labelled the Valentine Killer . . .