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"A real thriller!"

You've heard of psychics that are employed to solve crimes. Some even can enter the mind of a criminal and predict his moves. What if the criminal had the same ability? What if he could predict the moves of his pursuer and dodge each one? Who would prevail.

Liz Ramsey, being the only police detective in town, is used to being awakened in the middle of the night to investigate crime scenes. This particular murder is most disturbing. The victim is young, perhaps nineteen. Though she suspects that the girl may have been prostituting herself there is no clear motive or suspect for the crime.

On the scene Liz's second sense kicks in bring her into eye contact with the local celebrity, the reclusive Greg Conyers. She is instantly intrigued by him, subconsciously she recognizes that he is important, but how?

The case is frustrating as each lead becomes a dead end. She's become involved with the prime witness. Greg Conyers has lived quietly in a secluded mansion with his dying mother, but the property abuts the murder scene. Liz had been compelled to question him. Greg is quiet, lonely, and very gifted as an artist, something about him touches Liz's heart strings, the feeling is mutual. He is secretive too, and that worries Liz, particularly when several witness put him at the scene of the crime.

When Greg becomes the chief suspect and begins to act strangely as well, Liz has to decide whether to trust her instincts and her heart or the evidence that points to her lovers guilt.

This was a real thriller. Though the reader will no doubt discover the perpetrator before the detective, the case is exciting, the emotions high. We are helpless to do anything but watch as Greg is torn between the people that he loves and his responsibility to do what is right. It is not an easy road, but the ending is very satisfying.

Copyright © 2000

Reviewed by Leslie Tramposch
Posted November 6, 2006

When Detective Liz Ramsey is called out in the middle of the night to investigate the murder of a young woman who may or may not have been a prostitute, she recognizes right away that the case could be complicated. There's no obvious motive or suspect in the death.

A more pleasant surprise is one of the witnesses to the crime. She doesn't intend to become romantically involved with him, but Greg Conyers is too attractive to ignore. The mysterious and reclusive local celebrity lives with his dying mother in a decaying old mansion next door to the site of the murder. He claims he didn't hear anything that night, but is he telling the truth?

When the evidence starts pointing to Greg as the chief suspect, Liz will have to make an agonizing decision about whom to trust. She'll have to put her career, and even her life, on the line to catch a killer.

Note: This book was previously published elsewhere under the same title, but has been revised and re-edited.