On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - a human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local supermarket reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut up his wife into little pieces yet can't remember where he hid them. When two young girls are reported missing in quick succession the Denton crime wave reaches terrifying heights, and as an exhausted Frost staggers from case to case something nasty arrives at the station in the form of Detective Chief Inspector Skinner...