The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later another woman is attacked. Both victims shoes are taken by the offender.
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realizes that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed Shoe Man and was believed to have raped four women before murdering his fith victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced...

with the magazines under the notice board