Northgate Psychiatric Hospital for the Criminally Insane is home to England’s most depraved and twisted minds. Cannibals, serial killers, necrophiles, the worst mankind has to offer all locked up for life behind its walls, no chance of a reprieve. Better for all.But when one of the inmates, Harold Saggerbob, is found brutally mutilated in his cell and nothing on the CCTV footage to indicate the aggressor, Detective Inspector, Jim Morfield, is less than thrilled when he is called in to investigate. Northgate Hospital is the one place on Earth he does not like to visit. He has his own secrets connected to the prison, that haunt him in his dreams.Then, another inmate is found in similar circumstances. And yet, as he delves into the hospital’s history, he discovers the inmates may not be the only ones with secrets to hide. Or just the living.