In the fifth Joe Keough mystery, Keough and his partner Harriet Conrs working on a federal task force confront serial murders of children in Chicago and St. Louis. Is one killer at work or two? Keough and Conrs plunge into a world of insanity and evil, and the clock is ticking. . . . Plenty of tension. Publishers Weekly Randisi's Keough mysteries are understated gems. Moves quickly and logically [with] an unsettling resolution to this fine crime vel. Booklist
Robert J. Randisi, like his cop hero Joe Keough, is a transplanted New Yorker living in the Midwest. While Keough solves crimes, Randisi makes them up, and has written prolifically in the mystery and suspense field for several decades to the delight of critics and readers.