<EM>Case one:</EM> A little girl goes missing in the night. <BR><BR><I>Case two:</I> A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. <BR><BR><I>Case three:</I> A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.<BR><BR>Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge . . .