Blood Red — Henry Horrock

Secluded in his cottage on the Long Island Sound, Manhattan attorney Alec Anton has seen better days. Haunted by his memories of his glorious marriage gone bad, taunted by the press as he struggles to keep a pair of high profile clients out of prison, Alec balks when a neighbor enlists his help in finding her vanished son. Yet he's powerless to refuse the seductive Lee Hastings - and powerless to disentangle himself from a case that swiftly goes from baffling to deadly when the missing man turns up, his strangled corpse marked by a single red carnation...

Now Alec must unravel a shocking murder that leads to a conspiracy far bigger than anyone imagines. A conspiracy that will lure the unsuspecting lawyer into a violent, clandestine world where a lethal trap awaits those who dare to cross paths with a brilliant - and vengeful - killer...