Henry Carter Hull

A former star athlete turned coroner's investigator is drawn into a brutal, complicated murder.

Grace Blades is a master psychologist, but in private, she indulges a secret thrill-seeking darkness, pursuing danger as an escape from the regimented life she's established.

"A much loved woman's dead body is found in her apartment, victim of horrendous overkill even as her dining room table is perfectly set for a romantic dinner. Turns out her devoted boyfriend has an alibi and, with few clues leading to a suspect, LAPD's Lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls in psychologist Alex Delaware for help. Then another woman's shot execution style; three bullets in the back of her head leave her husband with a profitable business. He's...

"LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many of them--the ones he calls "different"--he taps the brain of brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. But neither Alex nor Milo are prepared for what they find on an early morning call to a deserted mansion in Bel Air. This one's beyond different. This is predation, premeditation, and cruelty on a whole new level. Four people have been slaughtered and left displayed bizarrely...

LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware investigate a child's body that had been buried for sixty years and a woman's murder that occurred nearby.