You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder.... Up till now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were safely behind bars. This one's different--this one's on the loose. In the northern town of Bradfield four men have been found mutilated and tortured. Fear grips the city; no man feels safe. Clinical psychologist Tony Hill is brought in to profile the killer. A man with more...

Dixie Hemingway was a deputy with the Sarasota County Sheriff's Department in southwest Florida. Then came a tragic accident, and now Dixie's a pet-sitter on Siesta Key ---a lush, exotic barier island where the people tend to be rich, suntanned, and tolerant of one another's quirks. As Dixie tries to get her life back in order, pet-sitting is the perfect job: she likes the animals, and they like her, and she doesn't have to deal with people very much....