public prosecutors

Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper works to uncover a link between a serial killer and a body that has been discovered in a nineteenth-century brownstone formerly belonging to Edgar Allan Poe.

New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp faces one of his most challenging and dramatic cases when his wife Marlene Ciampi learns that his office has indicted the wrong man for murder.

"Sharif Jabbar, the demagogic founder of a Harlem mosque, is being held on new terror allegations, and New York District Attorney Roger 'Butch' Karp is determined to bring him down. But Karp faces formidable competition in defense attorney Megan O'Dowd, a radical activist enthralled with revolutionary rhetoric. Meanwhile, Karp's wife, Marlene Ciampi, is investigating the murder of society beauty Michelle Oakley. As Ciampi explores a sordid underworld of upscale call girls and the price paid for indulging the wealthiest of men, Karp discovers that even the city's most powerful, unimpeachable players have secrets that could set them free or cost them more than they ever feared."--back cover.

When his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, assistant district attorney Andy Barber is torn between loyalty and justice as facts come to light that lead him to question how well he knows his own son.

Investigating the murders of two women whose bodies were left in houses of worship, prosecutor Alexandra Cooper rules out initial suspicions about hate crimes and begins a race against time to prevent further killings.