Police Sergeant Lou Boldt heads a special task force within Seattle's Homicide bureau. His job: find and stop the Cross Killer, a twisted, perverse serial murderer who has eluded police for six months and paralyzed the city. But when a body washes up on the shore of Puget Sound, Boldt thinks the killer has finally made a mistake. This body shows some of the work of the Cross Killer-but a job badly botched. Did this woman die while trying to escape?...

After discovering that a Seattle homeless woman received electroshock treatments, police psychologist Daphne Matthews teams up with her mentor, former police sergeant Lou Boldt, to investigate and uncovers a pattern of murder and mutilation.

Seattle police detective Lou Boldt and police psychologist Daphne Matthews confront a challenging case. People are dying throughout Seattle--victims of a madman who is placing poisoned food in supermarkets. The criminal is intelligent: he writes the police letters faxed directly from a laptop computer over public telephone lines. How are they to stop a criminal when there is no crime scene to study?

Lou Boldt is back and entering dark new territory. A shipping container washed ashore leads Seattle television news anchor Stevie McNeal and her reporter friend, Melissa, on the trail of a scam involving the importation of illegal aliens. A career stepping-stone for McNeal, the investigation put her at cross-purposes with the Seattle Police Department's Lou Boldt and Sergeant John LaMoia. When Melissa disappears, perhaps at the hands of the Chinese...

Friendship comes at a cost. For beautiful Mary-Ann Walker, who struggled with the challenges of a difficult family history, that cost proves to be her life. With Mary-Ann's past as its only guideline, the Seattle homicide unit must delve into the relationships between a misguided young woman and her family, friends, and lover. Let the psychological duels begin.

A riveting novel about a mistake from the past that threatens to ruin the lives of Lou and Elizabeth Boldt.