After her last harrowing case Kate Martinelli is more than ready for a quieter life with her longtime lover Lee, but everything changes when she's called to the scene of a carefully executed murder. Half-hidden in a clump of bushes lies a well-muscled corpse, handcuffed and strangled, with a candy bar in his pocket. The only person who might have wanted airport baggage/handler James Larsen dead seems to be the wife he repeatedly abused, but her alibi is airtight. And when a second body turns up - also zapped, cuffed and strangled, but with no obvious connection to the first - Kate and her partner A1 Hawkin are stumped.