20 years ago, Craig Miller escaped suspicion and rumour in the kingdom after his mother's disappearance. Now an out of favour tabloid journalist, he returns to restart his career with a sexed-up piece about wolf sightings. What he didn't reckon on were old friends with dark secrets and a conspiracy that he might well have helped to start. When DS Jimmy Melville finds a finger near the sleepy town of Auchtermuchty, it points him to a missing planning officer and her shifty solicitor husband. When more body parts start turning up on the eve of a royal visit the brass start to panic. Can he make sense of it all while holding off his officious young DC and avoid his IBS flaring up? Dr Susannah Martin should be sorting out myth and reality but the distractions of a mysterious, albeit handsome student are about to lead her astray. She needs to keep her head on her shoulders, literally, when Craig Miller turns up on her doorstep with tale of a werewolf...