“What gnawed most at his soul all these years later was that those who committed those unspeakable acts against him when he was twelve, thirteen and fourteen, had simply gone on with their lives. There was no fairness in that fact—he suffered and they prospered. Perhaps they should suffer too. Perhaps that would release him from his demons.” anny Miller lives in Toronto, an uncommonly diverse and peaceful city. Dealing with the violence that disrupts the city’s peace is Danny’s responsibility. A forty-two-year-old homicide detective, Danny now faces several murders that may be intertwined. For Danny and his team, each murder presents moral quandaries about how people of different backgrounds relate to each other in a multicultural urban centre.