“Williams, a marketing and advertising veteran, skillfully and realistically depicts the fast-paced atmospheres at the ad agency and the police department. He supports his convincing character relationships with quick, naturalistic dialogue, and uses humor with a light touch to help offset the story’s more grisly elements.” - Kirkus Reviews. "This clever, modern thriller is a study in contrasts. Gruesome images such as a human head impaled on a public park fence may threaten to turn your stomach, but before you get truly traumatized, experienced author Steve Williams will get you laughing at—and with—the folks faced with solving this hideous crime." - ForeWord Clarion Reviews. When a human head is impaled on the wrought-iron fence of the Doyle Public Gardens, Detectives Sal Mitchell and Eddie Sandovan catch the case. The victim’s identity sheds no light on why he was murdered. Donald Kess was the president of a city college. His colleagues can’t fathom who would have wanted him dead. A second head appears, stuck brazenly on the fence surrounding city hall. Councilman Vic Danelli was a corrupt public official, with a predilection for strippers, bribes, and influence peddling. As Mitchell and Sandovan struggle to find a connection between the two brutal murders, Mitchell’s life is further complicated by the stress of his relationship with advertising executive Mya Laing. Mya and the ad agency she works for are in the middle of the industry’s biggest pitch of the year, for a brilliant Japanese industrialist and client from hell. Mya and the agency are pulling ninety-hour workweeks. Mitchell is doing the same. The pressure of the pitch intensifies when Mya’s agency is shortlisted for the $100 million account. The pressure of Mitchell’s case is ratcheted up when a third head is found, on the fence of the city’s cemetery. High-powered lawyer Thurstrum Carter is a partner in a firm whose DNA is a combination of pit bull and pit viper. There are plenty of people who may have wanted him dead. But there is still no common thread between the three murders. The media is having a feeding frenzy, excoriating the police for failing to make an arrest, while secretly hoping more heads will roll. As Mitchell and Sandovan dig deeper into the victims’ lives, they find the men had one thing in common. The detectives race to find out who the next target might be. At the height of the new business pitch between two bitter agency rivals, Mya is snatched from her condo in the dead of night. Mitchell assumes the worst, that Mya was kidnapped as leverage against him in his case. Mitchell shrewdly tracks down the killers, cracking their resolve and putting an end to their vendetta. Then he gets help from an extraordinary source in finding Mya, unknowingly leaving a loose end with the power to end his career. "Williams, a marketing and advertising veteran, skillfully and realistically depicts the fast-paced atmospheres at the ad agency and the police department. He supports his convincing character relationships with quick, naturalistic dialogue, and uses humor with a light touch to help offset the story’s more grisly elements. Indeed, this enjoyable novel’s main shortcoming is that it feels too short. While the story has a gratifying ending, readers may wish they were able to spend a bit more time with the characters." – Kirkus Reviews