This riveting novel introduces Cal Callahan, former medical examiner, and his wife, Danie, former FBI profiler. Frequent travel and a devastating tragedy spur them to take cases where they can work together. Their first opportunity is in Charleston, called the “Holy City” for its religious tolerance, where bizarre murders eerily mimic a notorious case old case. Wealthy women have been strangled and posed in a sexually grotesque manner. The Callahans face conflicting demands by the police, politicians, and the media. Another murder will happen soon. With a city on the edge of panic, some doubt Danie’s theories. Worse, she is nearly killed.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Marilyn J. Bardsley’s “After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” was Number 1 on the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Nonfiction Books list. She created and managed Time Warner’s Crime Library, the premier crime website on the Net, for more than a decade. As the founder of Crimescape.com, she now brought 21 true crime books to the marketplace.

Before she began her “life of crime,” Bardsley was a marketing executive for business internet services at MCI and British Telecom North America and an advisor to executives of LG Electronics on internet investments.

Mark Gado was a detective with the City of New Rochelle Police Department in New York for 29 years and a federal agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration for 2 years. He was named Investigator of the Year 2000, received the International Award of Honor from the D.E.A. in New Orleans, Louisiana and received dozens of other awards and commendations during his long police career.

Gado is the author of KILLER PRIEST (Praeger 2006); DEATH ROW WOMEN (Prager 2007); MOM, THE KILLER; NIGHTCRAWLER; KISS THE GIRLS GOODNIGHT (all Rosetta Books) and FAMOUS AMERICAN CRIMES AND TRIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA (2004). Gado has a B.A. in Criminal Justice and an M. S. in Criminal Justice from Iona College.

Detective Gado joined the rescue effort at Ground Zero immediately after September 11. He is also a U.S. Army combat veteran of Vietnam, 1967-1968.