A body lies crumpled in a Kings Cross doorway—Old Joe, a homeless fixture on Darlinghurst Road, his throat slashed with surgical precision. In this gentrifying area where developers replace strip clubs with luxury apartments, murder seems an extreme solution to urban renewal.

Detective Gary Haddock’s investigation intensifies when a second victim appears in Point Piper—one of Sydney’s most exclusive enclaves—with identical wounds. The victims couldn’t be more different: a homeless man and a wealthy socialite.

Sergeant Natalie Campbell, newly transferred to Kings Cross, brings fresh eyes to the case. Where Haddock sees disconnected murders, Campbell detects patterns—connections between victims from entirely different worlds.

As the body count rises across Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, pressure mounts from the media and politicians. The killer leaves minimal evidence beyond precision wounds, suggesting medical training.

Campbell’s risk-taking advances the investigation but places her in the killer’s path. Protecting his young partner, Haddock struggles between restraining her dangerous impulses and acknowledging that her approach might be their only hope.

In this Australian detective thriller, Haddock and Campbell navigate Sydney’s stark social contrasts—from harbourside mansions to Kings Cross streets—pursuing a killer who moves between both worlds, delivering death with cold precision regardless of social standing.