When Jack Bell’s beloved mother passes away it sends him on a downward spiral of contemplation and murder. Reconstructing the mysterious death of his wife arouses long-slumbering suspicions in the mind of America’s favourite cop-on-the-edge. Fuelled by alcohol and a thirst for justice, Bell revisits his old haunts and gives them a new coat of blood-red paint. As Bell dives deeper into the mystery--and the number of suspects grows rather than diminishes--he realises that he may have bent the thin blue line of the law far beyond its breaking point. In this controversial sequel to Death Knell, rumination and ruination become one in the same.