Wire in the Blood

When a child's body is found in a deserted warehouse, Carol calls Tony in to advise, and has to hand the case over to him when a mugging leaves her in hospital. As two more missing children are found dead in different locations, Tony realises that the killer is trying to tell police something about their past.

A husband and wife are brutally murdered in their beds, and a prostitute is discovered dead in the local canal. Worryingly for Tony, the killings bear the same MO as those of a newly-released killer who claims to have been reformed and has now enrolled as a PhD student in Tony's class.

Tony and Carol are both travelling when a bizarre murder brings them home. Further deaths follow but the MOs are all so strange and so significantly varied that profiling suggests each one must be committed by a different person. And to make things more complicated, the killer appears to be schizophrenic.

Frappé à la tête par un meurtrier potentiel, Tony se réveille blessé et découvre qu'il a une tumeur au cerveau. Alors que Tony fait face à sa propre mort, un sniper anonyme arrête des victimes dans les rues de la ville. Malgré tous les efforts d'enquête, le tireur d'élite échappe à la capture alors que les morts semblent dénuées de sens et sans motif.