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After a drug-fueled sex party, a successful writer is found strangled in an alley next to an unconcious hooker. It emerges that a number of prostitutes have been attacked recently--and they all knew the dead man. Who wanted to kill the novelist, and why assault the women as well? Burke and his team dig deep to find the answers.

Twenty years after a robbery that killed an innocent man, someone has started murdering the gang members responsible for the crime. Burke ignores the prime suspect in the case, seeming to let personal considerations get in the way of his better judgment. But for the chief inspector, it's a matter of trusting his instinct and sticking to his guns.

When a farmer fallen on hard times is burned to death, Burke and company head to the countryside to investigate. Tensions in the area run high between the locals and a pushy land developer from the city, and the murder of a second farmer with financial problems leaves everyone wondering who will be next.

A high-flying lawyer is killed after a night of hard drinking with his law partner and a corner-cutting developer. Within days, the other two also become targets. The team search for an unidentified fourth man at the restaurant--and for a motive behind the shootings.

A series of stabbings with hypodermic syringes puts the detectives in pursuit of a clinical killer. Their chief suspect is a disgraced doctor whose drug trials caused the death of a patient. But the man has a cast-iron alibi. The case takes a macabre turn when a local reporter starts receiving body parts in the mail.

After a young woman overdoses, her death is quickly followed by two murders: a drug-ferrying cab driver and the woman's father, a city jeweler. A lawyer who represents a local crime boss--and who introduced the victim to drugs--seems to be the link between the deaths. But there are others with secrets to hide and motives that lie closer to home.

Why would someone fake the murder of a middle-aged librarian who had already died of natual causes? Could it be linked to the killing of a joyriding homeless teenager? The detectives follow the trail to a very unexpected place.

An infatuated Ross covers for his new girlfriend when she finds a dead body in her country cottage. One lie leads to another, however, and soon the detective is in over his head. Meanwhile, an old murder case comes back to haunt him, but reopening it may provide the key to solving the current crime.