Nobody notices the homeless. Which is why it took so long to
realize that homeless women were being abducted in small towns across the
South, then returned unharmed and untouched a few days later. They remembered
that the kidnappers talked about “Harassing,” but nothing more. A local police
investigation sparks a nationwide search for victims and kidnappers. The FBI learns
that the abductions have been going on for several years and involve hundreds
of homeless women. There's little chance to catch the perpetrators until motive
is known. And that's a complete mystery.
Danny Flint and the New Orleans Police High-Profile Crimes
Unit are pulled into the investigation and quickly develop leads to other,
seemingly unconnected, crimes. An
assassin tries to murder one of Danny's analysts, a mental health counselor
vanishes, an Illinois State Senator disappears, and Sheriff's Deputy Caroline
Trudeaux is marked for death. How they’re connected might lead to motive, but
nothing is apparent.
Follow Danny and his team through the swamps and forests of
Louisiana and Mississippi, the deadly corruption of New Orleans politics, an
attempted murder of an FBI Agent and the science of forensic anthropology as
they try to understand the connections and prevent more disappearances and
deaths. Buzz Bakersfield, a young career criminal and lock expert, joins
Danny's team as a door-opener - literally. He's kept busy trying to predict the
kidnappers' next moves, helping a traumatized friend from his past, and getting
to know his new girlfriend. The sex involves sprinkles unless it involves a
hearse or maybe a saddle. It's New Orleans, what else would you expect?
The plot twists every other chapter, as the action quickens
and becomes more violent. It gets more and more difficult to separate the good
guys from the bad ones. Putting the puzzle together involves medical and
mechanical sciences, profiling several thousand suspects, multiple precision
law enforcement raids, intense analysis and some luck. What is “Harassing.”
What’s the motive? And, when it’s over, is it really done?
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