Alexandra Cooper Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor is brought into what promises to be a messy case. Gemma Dogen was found in her own office in a New York hospital sexually assaulted soaked in her own blood & considered likely to die before she can be moved to the emergency room. Alex combs through her files for murders with similar modus operandi while Mike Chapman & the other detectives concentrate on possible motives amongst her friends & colleagues
- many of whom had found Gemma a professional thorn in their sides. Two facts rapidly become apparent: the hospital itself is far from secure; & someone believes that Alex has discovered something far too damaging for them to let her live...