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Almost a year after the doorstep murder of media celebrity, Cathy Sphinx, the police are no closer to solving the crime, and the murderer always one step ahead. Broadening their net, two members of Kensington CID visit Poole in Dorset, to question seven individuals who are similar to descriptions given by eyewitness's close to the murder scene.Due to the fact Kensington CID are sniffing around the area and want to interview him, Eddie Taylor moves quickly from has apartment, selling a number of unwanted items including an answerphone, which, in his haste, he fails to check for any calls.Temporarily unemployed Izzy Daniels buys the answerphone from a used goods store as a means of recording messages from prospective employers. Plugging the machine in at home, it plays a recording of a woman being murdered. Izzy, and her landlord and friend, Martin Johnson, enhance the recording to find the murder occurred less than 24 hours beforehand, Daniels and Johnson set out to find the previous owner of the machine to hand over the cassette, but in doing so, become involved in the local Mafia underworld, in which Taylor, a highly paid hit man, is an integral part.Despite both Poole and Kensington police involvement, Daniels and Johnson are sucked into a world of crooked dealings, murder, drugs and pornography. After Taylor murders Daniels' boyfriend, she follows him to the Canary Islands to confront and kill the man who has robbed her of the love of her life, and also discovers the identity of the mysterious 'Taurus'; instigator of the underworld 'hits'.