Bernadette Saint Clare is an FBI agent with a difference: she has anunerring but uncanny knack for apprehending killers. Her ability makes hera dangerous maverick in the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Her reward isa backwater posting to Minnesota, but on her very first day a mutilatedbody is found: the killing is the work of a vigilante killer intent onsettling old scores. Soon more bodies appear up and down the Mississippi.All are evildoers who have preyed on the innocent. Forensic investigationis too slow for the dizzying sequence of events that now take place.Bernadette is catapulted from the heart-stopping sequence of slayings intoa chase where stalker and prey swap places and where she will be taken tothe very brink of sanity.