Ridley Pearson - Lou Boldt/Daphne Matthews Series: Books 1-3: Undercurrents, The Angel Maker, No Witnesses

Police Sergeant Lou Boldt heads a special task force within Seattle’s Homicide bureau. His find and stop the Cross Killer, a twisted, perverse serial murderer who has eluded police for six months and paralyzed the city. But when a body washes up on the shore of Puget Sound, Boldt thinks the killer has finally made a mistake. This body shows some of the work of the Cross Killer—but a job badly botched. Did this woman die while trying to escape? Did she knowingly jump in the water to preserve a clue? And is she now desperately trying to tell Boldt something? With the help of the alluring Daphne Matthews, a police psychologist, Boldt pieces together the complex puzzle—and the listener is taken along on a journey into the mind of a killer. THE ANGEL At The Shelter, no one judges the runaway teens who come in off the rainy Seattle streets. Volunteers, like police psychologist Daphne Matthews, want only to rescue and rebuild lives. Being a cop, Daphne thinks she’s seen it all. But, what she encounters in a sixteen-year-old girl chills her in a way she thought a case no longer could. Daphne turns for help to the best cop she knows, a man with creative instincts and an appreciation for forensic lab techniques—Lou Boldt. Boldt isn''t a cop anymore; he’s playing jazz piano in a downtown club and doing his best to forget the past. When Daphne puts her evidence on the table, Boldt is hooked. NO Seattle police detective Lou Boldt and police psychologist Daphne Matthews return to confront the most challenging case of their careers. People are dying throughout Seattle—victims of a madman who is placing poisoned food in neighborhood supermarkets. But the criminal is he writes the police chilling extortion letters—faxed directly from a laptop computer over public telephone lines—and retrieves his ransom electronically, through automatic teller machines in hundreds of locations around the city. And while he is a murderer, his crimes take place miles and often days away from his innocent victims' demise. How can you stop a criminal when there is no crime scene to study—and no witnesses?