The Law of Unintended Consequences
Sturdy, stalwart Detective Marie Stransky has returned to work after the birth of her fifth baby, another girl, to find that "he's back."
Called to Sant Rita Park, a gathering place for the homeless and addicted, Marie studies the strangled body of a young woman. The cigarette burn on her right wrist pegs her as a victim of a stalker who has already killed two homeless women. Then there's the young Mexican woman found shot in a wash. Homicide department head Lieutenant Carl Lindgrin, a man Marie loves to hate, dismisses the murder as gang related, but the tattoo of a unicorn on the girl's shoulder gives Marie pause.
What self-respecting gangbanger has a tattoo of a unicorn?
And the bodies pile up.
Called to Sant Rita Park, a gathering place for the homeless and addicted, Marie studies the strangled body of a young woman. The cigarette burn on her right wrist pegs her as a victim of a stalker who has already killed two homeless women. Then there's the young Mexican woman found shot in a wash. Homicide department head Lieutenant Carl Lindgrin, a man Marie loves to hate, dismisses the murder as gang related, but the tattoo of a unicorn on the girl's shoulder gives Marie pause.
What self-respecting gangbanger has a tattoo of a unicorn?
And the bodies pile up.