Searching for a serial killer who leaves playing cards at the scenes of his crimes, police officer Elizabeth Needham teams up with brilliant professor Dylan Reinhart, whose book has been connected to the murders.

Alice struggles for months after being laid off from her job and welcomes the opportunity to work at a new art gallery in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking district, but her luck quickly dissipates when, upon arrival, Alice discovers the gallery has been stripped bare and the body of Drew Campbell, the corporate representative for the gallery's anonymous owner, is lying on the floor.

When a respected NYPD homicide detective finds the prime suspect in a murder case is his estranged son, he is forced to return home to the decaying boardwalks of Long Island to confront the darkness of his past.

"A series of gruesome murders in New York City has Michael Bennett angry -- but when he identifies similar cases in Atlanta and San Francisco, his feelings escalate into all-out alarm. All of the victims are young women. And each one is killed in a horrifyingly distinct fashion.In the midst of such devastating loss of life, Bennett's longtime love, Mary Catherine, is soon to become his bride. As Bennett toils to connect the cases, the killer strikes...

NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory's innate sense of right and wrong is sorely tested when she is assigned to a murder case that is somehow connected to a twelve-year-old double homicide and dismemberment that was originally investigated by her deceased adoptive father.

"Back in the bad old days, when Billy Graves worked for an anti-crime unit in [the South Bronx] known as the Wild Geese, the NYPD branded him as a cowboy. Now forty, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch. Mostly, his team of detectives conducts a series of holding actions--and after years in police purgatory, Billy is content simply to do his job. But soon after he gets a [4:00] a.m. call about the fatal knifing of...

Two mismatched NYPD detectives stumble into a seemingly dull case that turns out to be one of New York City's biggest crimes in years, offering them the opportunity to show up the two toughest cops on the force.

Detective Simon Ziele is called upon by his former partner to help find and capture a serial killer on the loose in Manhattan.