Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving two inmates dead. One of the killings is an open-and-shut case, complete with eyewitnesses; but the other, the murder of a former cop, defies easy answers. Initial investigation of the crime scene points to one cause of death, but the CSI team's scientific methods uncover something completely different -- and wholly unexpected....On the other edge of the city, Stella Bonasera and Lindsay Monroe look into the murder of a young woman who worked at a popular Italian bakery in the Bronx. They find the perfect suspect almost immediately: a frequent customer who spent a lot of time flirting with the victim and who previously had been arrested for a violent crime. Yet Stella can't help but think that their perfect suspect is just a little too perfect for such a messy murder.... Nothing is as it seems as New York City's dedicated crime scene investigators piece together the clues and examine the evidence to discover the true killers in their midst.

【作者簡介】

契斯‧迪肯帝多

（Keith R. A. DeCandido）

白人男子，年約三十多歲，體重八十六公斤左右，他雖然常在紐約各區出沒，但最後一次被目擊出現在布朗克斯區，他隨身配備一臺被列為極具殺傷力的筆記型電腦，常在無預警情況下，透過該筆電在文學界製造不少小說、短篇故事、漫畫、非小說類文學，和精選集，這些作品在電視、電影、電玩和漫畫界中造成一些影響，其中包括《星艦迷航記》及其相關衍生小說、《魔法奇兵》、《終極動員令》、《異世奇人》，並透過驚奇漫畫公司出版《惡靈古堡》、《星際爭霸》、《超自然檔案》、《魔獸世界》……等不少作品，此外他還在本星球製造一本受到高度矚目的警察辦案奇幻小說，名叫《惡龍分局》（暫譯），和其他短篇故事。他的同夥包含一位他稱為未婚妻的女子和代號名為「青木」與「馬可斯」的兩隻貓。他的檔案已發布於www. Decandido.net，其相關資訊亦刊登於kradical.livejournal.com。

【譯者簡介】

翁宛鈴

淡江大學英文系畢業，美國雪城大學資訊管理所碩士，現任職美商公司。熱愛文學，卻靠冷冰冰的電腦吃飯。