Frank Carlson Library

For Chicago cop Suze Figueroa, home is a sanctuary, a quiet refuge from the crime, corruption, and tragedy she encounters everyday on the job. The creaky old Victorian house she shares with her little boy, her invalid sister, and her sister's family seems far removed from the threats and dangers of the mean city streets...or so she believes. The truth is far more terrifying, for, unknown to Suze, a stranger has moved into the house: an intruder who...

In a Chicago hospital Dr. Edith Crosstant, head of the trauma unit, is found dead suffocated by a gauze pad shoved down her throat. The protagonist, reporter Cat Marsala, on assignment to write about the unit, abandons her research to find the killer. By the author of Hard Women.