On a lonely lover’s lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each has a gunshot wound in the head. The female victim has also been impaled by a metal spike. It’s a stroke of savage fury that tells LAPD detective Milo Sturgis that this case will call for more than standard police procedure. The dead woman remains unidentified, but her companion has a name – Gavin Quick. His troubled past had eventually landed him on a psychologist’s coach and Milo hopes that his friend Alex Delaware will be able to find vital clues. — back cover.
