With her energies focused on a baffling, vicious gang staying and her personal life in shambles, Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has a full plate. The last thing she needs is a whiz-kid grad student claiming to have stumbled upon a bizarre connection between several unsolved murders. The victims had nothing in common, yet each died by the same method, on theme date-a date that's rapidly approaching again. And that leaves Petra with little time to unravel the twisted logic of a cunning prdator who's evaded detection for years-and whose terrible hour is once more at hand. "An Elaborate, Tangled Web... With unsuspected turns at every chapter break...this addictive tale...is as intricately detailed as it is tantalizingly page-turning." Entertainment Weekly