In a revisitation of his first murder case, private detective Theodore Tate has to find the connection between a killer, an old abandoned slaughterhouse and the city's suddenly growing murder rate.

Imagine waking up covered in blood - but it's not your blood. There's a nasty bump on your head, and you can't remember a thing about last night. The morning paper reports that two young women were brutally murdered. You recognize their names. Pieces of the night before come back to you through the haze. And now you're the suspect in their grisly deaths. Welcome to Charlie's world. In this heart-pounding thriller, only the dead know what happened...