A savage psychopath is playing cat and mouse with Lucas Davenport. But both killer and detective find themselves at odds with a female investigator who has intensely personal reasons for catching the killer herself-and fast.

A Minneapolis PI investigates the murder of the man who killed his wife Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years the cold dark cells of the Minneapolis homicide squad were his turf, and with the help of his partner he wrung confessions out of countless killers. But that was long ago. Tonight Taylor is on the other side of the desk. Tonight he is the suspect.   Taylor's career in the department ended after his wife and daughter...

In St. Paul, a boy vanishes in a copycat Lindbergh kidnaping, the abductor going as far as to mail the parents a $20 bill from the Lindbergh ransom. To find his son the boy's father, reporter Rick Beanblossom, turns for clues to old news coverage of the Lindbergh kidnaping.

"The bodies of young men have been turning up in the Mississippi River for years, their deaths attributed to excessive drinking. But when an Iraq was vet suffering from PTSD is found in the river, St. Paul Homicide Detective John Santana Must decide if the young man's death was accidental od the result of something far more sinister. Caught between a reporter trying to rescue his flagging career, an FBI agent with a troubled past, and a beautiful...

A real estate scam tips Holland Taylor off to a widespread, deadly conspiracy When a drunk driver kills her entire family, Florida retiree Irene Gustafson is left rich and alone. Between savings and life insurance, the death of her son and his family leaves her with nearly $300,000-a veritable fortune in a community where most live off social security. Following the advice of Ann Landers, Mrs. Gustafson hands the money over to an investment manager....

"Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint BCA-FBI violent crime task force have handled shocking cases before, but this one is different. Stevenss daughter, Andrea, is distraught over a classmates suicide, but what the two investigators find is even more disturbingan online suicide club of unhappy teenagers, presided over by an anonymous presence who seems to be spurring them on. Soon, it becomes apparent that the classmate wasnt the first victimand...

In the 1950s, the moral dilemma of a woman who becomes pregnant out of wedlock. She is Anna MacEwan, 30, a divorcee carrying a child by a married lawyer. He intends to divorce and marry her, but in the meantime he would prefer if she had an abortion, saving him embarrassment.