<p><b>Christmas is coming. One body at a time. <br /></b><br />Three weeks before Christmas: Sunday, one a.m. A woman is drowned in her bathtub.<br /><br />One week later: Sunday, one a.m. A woman is beaten savagely to death, every bone in her body broken.<br /><br />Another week brings another victim.<br /><br />As panic spreads across London, DCI Antonia Hawkins, leading her first murder investigation, must stop a cold, careful killer whose twisted motives can only be guessed at, before the next body is found. On Sunday. <br /><br />When the clock strikes one . . .</p>