In the mid-size city of Rutherford, Chief of Detectives Jake Hines
has all his investigators working at top speed. His People Crimes Crew is
chasing a mugger whose violence is escalating towards murder. And the
Property Crimes Section is clamorous with complaints from people having
merchandise charged to their credit cards, even though the cards are safe
in their wallets. Chief McCafferty needs help with his project, and Trudy
says hers won't wait any longer...
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Tucson police detective Sarah Burke, smart and ambitious, worries that
Sergeant Delaney, her superior on the homicide squad, seems to have a
grudge against her. Still smarting from a painful divorce, she puts
personal concerns aside to concentrate on a body found in a parking lot.
The case takes a bizarre turn when Sarah's young niece, Denny, neglected
by her substance-abusing mother and struggling to stay in school,
disappears. The search is complicated by interference from the drug ring
that the suspected murderer's been working for, and Sarah's growing
romantic interest in a troubled colleague rebuilding his life
after injury...
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