Mathew Sedley returns home to his isolated cottage to find a dollhouse in his hallway. It’s a perfect replica of his home—inside and out—except that this dollhouse has a miniature figure of a woman lying in a pool of blood on the spare bedroom floor.
A sadistic serial killer is terrorising rural Somerset. Each murder is heralded by the discovery of a dollhouse, an exact replica of the place where the next body will be found. And every dollhouse is discovered by the same person—Mathew Sedley.