Every Kind of Wicked

Life and death have brought Maggie Gardiner full circle, back to the Erie Street Cemetery where she first entered Jack Renners orbit. Eight months ago, she learned what Jack would do in the name of justice. More unsettling still, she discovered how far she would go to cover his tracks. Now a young man sprawls atop a snowy grave, his heart shredded by a single wound. A key card in the victims wallet leads to the local universitys student housingand to a grieving girlfriend with an unsettling agenda. Maggies struggle to appease her conscience is complicated by her ex-husband, Rick, whos convinced that Jack is connected to a series of vigilante killings. Also a homicide detective, Rick investigates what seems like a routine overdose on Clevelands West Side, but here, too, the appearance belies a deeper truth. Ricks case and Jacks merge on the trail of a shadowy, pill-pushing physician, who is everywhere and nowhere at once, while Maggie and Jack uncover a massive financial shakedown hiding in plain sight. And when Ricks bloody fingerprint is found at another murder scene, Maggies world comes undone in a violent, irreversible torrent of events...