He s the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency s clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. It s not as if there s any danger involved. It s an easy way to sell books to his gullible customers and Alison, the beautiful girl in the jewellery shop across the road, will surely be impressed. Except she s not because she can see the bigger picture. And when they break into the shuttered shop next door on a dare, they have their answer. Suddenly they re catapulted along a murder trail which leads them from small-time publishing to Nazi concentration camps and serial killers...