Milbrook was a quiet town until a murderer paid a visit. Now it's in an uproar, and the cops are the most terrified of all. It's up to special investigator Whit Pynchon and crime reporter Annie Tyson-Tyree to trap the madman before he kills all the cops. Original.

The team: Whit Pynchon, the D.A.'s top cop (and bane of the town's police force) is back on another murder case, more heinous than any he can remember. Dogging his footsteps is Annie Tyson-Tyree, local crime reporter and Whit's lover as well, determined to report the story even at the cost of her job. The case: A young girl brutally murdered, her pregnant mother blasted into a coma. Why was the woman silenced? What did she know? If the mother doesn't regain consciousness, the answers will die with her. The choice: More than a horrifying crime, more than a classic puzzle begging to be solved, news of the double shooting spreads to neighboring states—and confronts one young girl, an innocent bystander, with a dangerous choice that will rob her of that innocence forever.

As Whit Pynchon investigates the murder of a college librarian, both his daughter and his lover are stalked by the killer

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When a terrified three-year-old girl is kidnapped from Milbrook's FunTime Day-Care Center by a man in a clown mask, the little girl's frantic mother is certain that her ex-husband is to blame. But when a mysterious prowler begins stalking another child at the Center, Raven County's special investigator, Whit Pynchon, becomes convinced that the snatched toddler is facing a much uglier—and possibly deadly—fate. With the help of his lover, newspaper editor Anna Tyree, Whit must double his efforts to unmask and capture a kidnapper who may be desperate enough to turn killer . . .