A serial killer leaves a college coed to die in the California desert, his signature of fire seared into her flesh.... A beautiful Chinese-American detective, recently transferred from Chinatown to the Upper West Side, is assigned a routine missing-persons case... A famous doctor returns home from a lecture to discover that his actress wife has been living a secret life.... Now, the paths of the cop, the killer, and the psychiatrist are about to converge.... A savage killer is on the loose in New York City. His calling card is a tattoo of flames; his trail of victims leads from the scorched sands of Californa to the blistering heart of Manhattan. Only Detective April Woo can block this vicious madman's next move. And with the help of psychiatrist Jason Frank, this NYPD policewoman will prove that the predator she's hunting is no ordinary killer—but then, April Woo is no ordinary cop.

The heat is on NYPD cop April Woo and Dr. Jason Frank to stop a savage killer—and time is not on their side. It all starts at a posh boutique on Manhattan's Upper West Side, when a young salesgirl is viciously slain. In the ensuing turmoil at the police station, ambition and sexual politics collide to form an unseemly undercurrent to a barbaric crime. And behind a wall of doctor/patient confidentiality, a sister paints a harrowing picture of emotional terrorism and madness for a prominent psychoanalyst. HC: Bantam.

In a pricey bachelor pad, a tormented man loses the battle for his soul...and dies a terrible death, apparently by his own hand.... In a huge hospital complex, an ex-nurse steals through the halls, hiding behind a phony ID...and plotting to exact a terrifying revenge.... In an elegant high-rise, a driven psychiatrist tries to manipulate the truth...and escape punishment for the sins of her past.... Deadly obsessions at a prestigious psychiatric institute, where people are dying—and killing—for love, lead NYPD Detective April Woo and eminent psychiatrist Jason Frank into the dangerous and shadowy area of sabotage and criminal responsibility—in an institution where a cold-blooded killer lurks...and where words can be the most lethal weapon of all.

The novels featuring NYPD Detective April Woo have been praised as “polished and intriguing” (Orlando Sentinel) and “gripping psychological drama” (Publishers Weekly). Now, April Woo faces her most challenging investigation yet. A man and woman lie dead on a snowy Manhattan sidewalk. The primary suspect is the murdered woman’s husband, African-American ex-football star Rick Liberty. For Detective Woo, it’s a homicide case engulfed in a media storm of race, class, sex, and celebrity. But somewhere, buried in all the publicity, lies the truth. And an extremely dangerous killer...

NYPD Detective April Woo finds herself caught between New York City powerhouse politics and ethnic expectations when a young Chinese-American mother is beaten unconscious, and her newborn son is gone. The woman's domineering husband wants to control the entire investigation. The mayor wants the case solved yesterday. And April's new boss is just waiting for her to make a career-killing mistake. To find the missing child, and find the motive behind the mystery, April must return to her old Chinatown precinct —- and uncover the hidden shame of a hostile community —- before someone decides to make this case her last ...

April risks her career to investigate the disappearance of a young doctor in Central Park. When Maslow Atkins goes for a quick run and doesn't come back, April's usually flawless cop instincts tell her that he is alive. She orders a massive search using the city's best K-9 tracking unit, though it means going outside her jurisdiction and outside her authority. It takes the brutal murder of a witness for April's hunch to be believed ... yet she still finds herself no closer to unraveling the lethal tangle of family secrets that obscures the most disturbing crime she has ever faced.

With the wedding of her own close friend rapidly approaching, NYPD detective April Woo and her partner, homicide specialist Mike Sanchez, race against time to find a madman who is targeting New York City's glamorous young brides, cutting them down in the midst of the wedding ceremony. Original.

Just when NYPD lieutenant Bernardino was ready to retire, he won the lottery. But when word of his good fortune gets out, the sharks start circling... and one of them wants to collect on an old debt. Now, April Woo must track her friend's murderer by searching her own tightly knit family of fellow officers for motives-and a suspect. A suspect who's enraged, elusive-and who's driving April in a terrifying search for the truth...

Manhattan's Upper East Side isn't a neighborhood that NYPD detective April Woo and Precinct Captain Mike Sanchez associate with grisly crimes-until the wife of a celebrity chef is slashed to death in her fashionable townhouse. The obvious suspect is her long-time nanny.