Boldt / Matthews #2
Hyperion
June 2001
On Sale: June 1, 2001
Featuring: Daphne Matthews; Lou Boldt
368 pages ISBN: 0786890088 EAN: 9780786890088 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
At The Shelter, no one judges the runaway teens who come in
off the rainy Seattle streets. Volunteers, like police
psychologist Daphne Matthews, want only to rescue and
rebuild lives. Being a cop, Daphne thinks she's seen it
all. But, as best-selling author Ridley Pearson's edge-of-
the-seat thriller opens, what she encounters in a sixteen-
year-old girl chills her in a way she thought a case no
longer could.
Daphne turns for help to the best cop she knows, a man with
creative instincts and an appreciation for forensic lab
techniques – Lou Boldt. Boldt isn't a cop anymore; he's
playing jazz piano in a downtown club and doing his best to
forget the past. When Daphne puts her evidence on the
table, Boldt is hooked. By all appearances someone is
illegally harvesting human organs for transplant. Soon the
two cops – and former lovers – are drawn into the dark
vortex of a high-tech, highly profitable underground
industry – and into the mind of its founder, a doctor gone
very, very bad...a man who began by trying to save patients
unable to get donor organs through legitimate channels...a
healer who let ambition, or something more sinister, turn
him into a killer.
The case gets personal when Daphne's friend and fellow
Shelter volunteer Sharon Shaffer is abducted, and evidence
left behind indicates she's about to become the killer's
next organ donor. Daphne and Boldt have only days, hours,
minutes to save Sharon from a killer about to make one
final, unforgettable contribution to humankind. Meanwhile a
woman caught in a nightmare of captivity rattles the bars
of a secret makeshift prison, too far from civilization for
anyone to hear her scream.