This book is a second book in a series written by Lynda La Plante. This is a police procedural that begins with two youngsters finding a dead body or the head of a dead body in the water when discovering a boat in the water. Then we meet a bunch of detectives who are looking for a burglar and they do case out a house and catch him and arrest him. Since this is a second book in a series I will be skipping on this one. I don't like to read out of order in books series. The cover is really cool looking though.