It is 1985. JOHN DAVIES, a journalist who has been working in London for years, returns to New Zealand to learn that LIZ GOULDEN, his former lover and the wife of MARTIN HALLETT, has been murdered. It appears that she is the third victim of a serial killer, but JOHN becomes convinced that there is something different about this particular murder. Is there? or is his conviction simply the result of his obsession with LIZ and her sisters - the GOULDEN girls of the Auckland social world? Did MARTIN HALLETT murder his wife? or is his only crime the fact that he was the man for whom JOHN was rejected? When the 'objective journalist' becomes involved despite himself, he learns that old scores get in the way of clear thinking. So does a new relationship - or two.