After her last harrowing case Kate Martinelli is more than ready for a quieter life with her longtime lover Lee, but everything changes when she's called to the scene of a carefully executed murder. Half-hidden in a clump of bushes lies a well-muscled corpse, handcuffed and strangled, with a candy bar in his pocket. The only person who might have wanted airport baggage/handler James Larsen dead seems to be the wife he repeatedly abused, but her alibi is airtight. And when a second body turns up - also zapped, cuffed and strangled, but with no obvious connection to the first - Kate and her partner A1 Hawkin are stumped.

The investigation's going nowhere when Kate has another cause thrust upon her by her friend, feminist minister R.oz Hall, who's convinced that a,young Indian bride has been murdered. As Kate wrestles with the clash between her personal and professional lives a third killing draws her and A1 into a network of pitiless destruction that reaches far beyond San Francisco. revealing a hit list with Shudderingly primal roots.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25