Product Description <br/>Homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair recognizes the dead woman hanging from a tree as a teenage runaway named Dawn he arrested ten years before. And as Sinclair and his partner soon learn, many of Dawn's clients, not to mention the local and federal officials who protect them, will go to any length to keep the police from digging too deep into her past. Then the killer goes public, and Sinclair must race to uncover the secrets Dawn was killed to protect before the killer unleashes a major attack on a scale the city has never seen before. But in the process, Sinclair runs into secrets from his own past-- some of which could end his homicide career for good.<br/> About the Author <br/>Brian Thiem spent twenty-five years with the Oakland Police Department, working homicide as a detective sergeant and later as the commander of the homicide section. He also spent twenty-eight years of combined active and reserve duty in the army, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He lives in Connecticut.