
"A hard-edged, absorbing story with shocking twists." --The Sunday Oregonian Robert Polhaus abuses women for his own sexual gratification. That violent history helps convict him of murdering two prostitutes, putting him on death row as a serial killer. "A thought-provoking story...

Matthew Riordan, a character critics have called "part Perry Mason, part Columbo," is a tough, cynical lawyer who has burned out. Until an old girlfriend, Elizabeth Kleinfeldt, breaks into his self-imposed isolation to ask for his help in appealing the death sentence of Robert...
