Two heist men wanted for double homicide... the body of a young punk in an allly.. the corpse of a girl in the dry riverbed... in fact, everything more or less routine for Lt. Luis Mendoza and his colleagues in the Los Angeles Police Department. and then they got the news... The murdered girl was a police-woman of fine standing- one of their very own. This is the 13th in the series of Luis Mendoza mysteries, each more baffling and absorbing than the last.