When Nan Vining returns to work as a homicide detective for
the Pasadena Police Department 12 months after she was
brutally attacked while on duty, she must conquer her fears
to solve the murder of Officer Frankie Lynde, a female
undercover officer posing as a prostitute, who was
kidnapped, raped and murdered. Nan tries to convince
everyone, including herself, that she's ready to return to
homicide investigations, but her own unsolved near-homicide
haunts her.
When Officer Frankie Lynde's naked and mutilated body is
dumped beneath the Colorado Street Bridge, Nan throws
herself headlong into the investigation, following her
instincts (or perhaps premonitions) in the face of
opposition from her fellow officers. The investigation
takes her through the dark side of sexual perversion, drugs
and money, into the troubled life and death of an officer
not unlike herself.
Returning to the force, Nan finds that the vow she made to
refrain from dating and sex until her teenage daughter
graduates from high school may be thwarted by her previous
partner (and lover), Corporal Jim Kissick. Encountering
emotions she forgot she could have, Vining fights the urge
to be with the man she loves.
Dianne Emley constructs a fascinating character in
Nan Vining. Through this artful entrance into the personal
and professional life of Officer Vining, the foundation is
set for many more titillating Nan Vining books to come.
After surviving a ferocious assault in the line of duty,
Detective Nan Vining has returned to the Pasadena police
force. Her newest assignment: cuffing the killer of a Los
Angeles policewoman who was unceremoniously dumped on a
Pasadena hillside. Could this spiteful, vicious crime be
related to Vining's own assault?
Determined to make headway amid the rigorous demands of
work and family, Vining is reluctant to share with others
the extrasensory visions she's experienced since her
attack-yet these deeply troubling psychic clues may just
lead to a solution in this disturbingly bizarre case. As
she follows the bloody trail, using every resource
available, Vining closes in on a kinky husband-and-wife
murder team . . . desperate to intercept them before their
next sadistic killing.
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