When the city looks away, one detective can't.
Detective Riley Walker once served on Chicago's elite Violent Crimes Task Force-until exposing corruption got her cast out to the South Side, the city's most violent districts.
Now she works the cases no one wants, with a partner she doesn't trust and a department that wants her gone.
When a mutilated body turns up-eyeless, with a message written in blood-Riley sees what no one else will. To her colleagues, it's another gang feud. To Riley, it's the beginning of something much darker.
As more victims surface, the message can't be ignored. And the deeper she digs, the more personal and dangerous the case becomes.
Fans of Michael Connelly and Thomas Harris will devour Of Murder and Madness-a gritty, pulse-pounding thriller that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.