The first book in the popular Frank Pavlicek series. Falconer and private investigator Frank Pavlicek is hunting with his red-tailed hawk in the Virginia woods when he stumbles across a young manβs body and evidence that implicates his own teenage daughter. Soon, his daughter is in jail. Frankβs past as a disgraced former NYPD homicide detective is coming back to haunt him. And his reputation and life are on the line...