Just as young journalist Lark Chadwick is about to begin her new job on the cops and courts beat, she discovers the body of a strangled girl -- the first victim of a serial killer. Lark's got the inside track, but there are complications: jealous rivals in the newsroom, her job in danger, a husky colleague who becomes a suspect who becomes a suspect, a superstar athlete with anger issues. And just who is that mysterious bag boy at the local market? Wit the help of her friend and mentor Lionel Stone, Lark's nerve is tested like never before in a dramatic life or death showdown with the killer. This is the third instalment in the Lark Chadwick mystery suspense series written by long-time CNN journalist John DeDakis.