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NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother.

Still reeling from her recent breakup with acclaimed journalist Jameson Rook, Nikki Heat is called to investigate when Cassidy Towne, who pens the most scandalous gossip column in all of New York, is found viciously murdered. However, when Rook makes an unannounced return into Heat's life, the murder investigation, which includes a list of high-profile suspects, begins to drag.

The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat's most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York's most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD. "In the third book of the New York Times bestselling Nikki Heat series,...