Michael Campion was a people's hero, a popular governor's son who publicly battled against a rare & debilitating heart illness. When he vanished without a trace, his disappearance & the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines daily. But the trail went cold very quickly.

A young mother and her child are gunned down while returning to their car at a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in blood-red lipstick.

Lindsay Boxer's baby is born. But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career. A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. And an eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and he's convinced is real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a shooting is called in - and...

15 months ago, Detective Lindsay Boxer's life was perfect - she had a beautiful child and a doting husband, Joe, who helped her catch a ruthless criminal who'd detonated a bomb in downtown San Francisco, killing 12 people. But Joe isn't everything that Lindsay thought he was and she's still reeling from his betrayal as a wave of mysterious, and possibly unnatural, heart attacks strike seemingly unrelated victims across San Francisco. Now the bomber...