A Matthew Hope Mystery . . . and Introducing Detective Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct.
Matthew Hope only takes the case on because it seems so routine: attractive Jill Lawton wants to divorce her husband Jack who has disappeared into thin air, somewhere in the cold, cold north.
It's all a bit more complicated than that. First, Jack's dead body is found, but turns out not to be Jack after all. Then a second corpse turns up, a young woman known variously as Melanie and Holly. Then Jack Lawton's absurd plan to rob the Calusa museum gets underway. And Matthew Hope has become embroiled in another dangerous case, the kind that he swore he would never, ever allow himself to be dragged into again . . .
With a little help from a detective called Steve Carella in the frigid north, Ed McBain's brilliant lawyer once again puts his own life on the line, in an unputdownable story of lust and lethality.
