Carol O'Connell

This book is dedicated to the walking wounded, in and out of uniform, all around the town, and to those who came from far away to help us. Though New York City is the prime character in my novels, the event of September 11,2001, does not appear in these pages, not even in passing, no mention at...

PrologueJohanna could hear cat's paws madly thudding on the bathroom door, and the animal was crying in a human way -so frightened. Or was he merely hungry.^ She had fed the poor beast, but how long ago.? No matter. The cat's cries receded, as though her front room had decamped from the hotel...

Formerly a child of the streets, now a brilliant computer hacker and NYPD sergeant, Kathleen Mallory's powerful intelligence is matched only by the ferocity with which she pursues her own unpredictable vision of right and wrong. And she will need every bit of that intensity now, in a murder case...