The second novel in the Women's Murder Club series. When a little girl is shot on the steps of a San Francisco church Detective Lindsay Boxer reconvenes the Women's Murder Club. Working with reporter Cindy Thomas assistant DA Jill Bernhardt & medical examiner Claire Washburn Lindsay tracks a mystifying killer who turns his pursuers into victims. The unorthodox allegiances of the Women's Murder Club lead them to suspect the unexpected
- the killer may be an ex-cop. But nothing prepares them for the demented logic behind his choice of victims.