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...