Over trumbled graves /

On a narrow bridge above the white-water falls that splits the city of Spokane, Washington, in two - during a routine drug bust gone laughably wrong - Detective Caroline Mabry faces a psychopath and helplessly watches him kill. Hours later the body of a young prostitute is found near the same water, the first of rnany similar victims to appear. The maniac called the Southbank Strangler has burst full force into Caroline's life. And now, with her mentor and partner Alan Dupree - a good cop turned cynical and sad - she will have lo fight to preserve her sanity in the surreal circus that is the "serial murder industry." Because in the midst of the media chaos, expert incompetence, and merciless city politics, a human monster is satisfying his terrible need -and turning his sights on a troubled policewoman who is only now discovering the true depths of evil.