A thrilling tale of murder, Manhattan and murky pasts - When sanitation worker Garry Thomason vanishes on his way to collect the trash, he is the first in a series of people discovered brutally murdered in the middle of hidden mews in New York. As Anna, Garry's boss, works to expose this 'Mews Murderer', she first uncovers Garry's murky past of crime and drugs, and then becomes a target herself; for this cold-blooded killer will do anything to escape detection and keep hidden a shocking secret of his own . . .