Special Detective Marshall Bahr's hard years on the Minneapolis police force have taken their toll. A single father, he's sacrificed his marriage, friendships, and private life for the thrill of the hunt. But his flawless record is about to be challenged with a murder that cuts straight to the heart...Mary Pat Fitzgerald still bore traces of the beauty that made the homecoming queen the most popular girl in the suburb of Edina - the last girl anyone would expect to find with a stomach full of gin, stabbed to death alongside a dangerous and remote footpath on the bluffs. With no clues and no suspects, Bahr's investigations is doomed to go unsolved - until the similar murder of another young girl leads the detective far from his home turf, and farther still from the slaying ground of a mysterious killer who's orchestrating each of Bahr's moves with chilling, cold-blooded perfection...