A beautiful young womans corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secretsexcept for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor wont listen. One of the towns most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Kats chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her.

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