A.K.A. — Dave Pedneau

THE MURDER:
The first victim is the college librarian who's bludgeoned to death by a massive avalanche of books. Accident? Investigator Whit Pynchon has a disturbing and different idea.

THE MOTIVATION:
Whit knows the murderer was really after his ex-wife. And he watches helplessly as both his daughter and his lover, newspaper editor Anna Tyree, are abducted by a madman playing out an elaborate plan to punish Whit -- before he kills him.

THE MANHUNT:
Have the women in Whit's life been sacrificed to a nightmare scenario of revenge? The answer could come too late. But Whit's got to find it because he may have already lost it all.