Book description
Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are
called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility
on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure
cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving
two inmates dead. One of the killings is an open-and-shut case, complete
with eyewitnesses; but the other, the murder of a former cop, defies
easy answers. Initial investigation of the crime scene points to one
cause of death, but the CSI team's scientific methods uncover something
completely different -- and wholly unexpected....
On the other edge of the city, Stella Bonasera and Lindsay Monroe
look into the murder of a young woman who worked at a popular Italian
bakery in the Bronx. They find the perfect suspect almost immediately:
a frequent customer who spent a lot of time flirting with the victim
and who previously had been arrested for a violent crime. Yet Stella
can't help but think that their perfect suspect is just a little too
perfect for such a messy murder....
Nothing is as it seems as New York City's dedicated crime scene
investigators piece together the clues and examine the evidence to
discover the true killers in their midst.
Keith R. A. DeCandido was born and raised in New
York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen
novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, and comic books,
most of them in various media universes, among them Star Trek,
World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda,
Farscape, Xena, and Doctor Who. His original novel
Dragon Precinct was published in 2004, and he's also edited
several anthologies, among them the award-nominated Imaginings
and two Star Trek anthologies. Keith is also a musician, having
played percussion for the bands the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players,
the Boogie Knights, and the Randy Bandits, as well as several solo
acts. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith follows the
New York Yankees and practices kenshikai karate. He still lives
in New York City with his girlfriend and two insane cats.
