<DIV>A blistering summer heat wave is the backdrop for <I>Fever Dream</I>.</div><div> </div><div>Nearly a year after psychologist Daniel Rinaldi, a trauma expert who consults with the Pittsburgh Police, helped unravel a baffling murder, he finds himself drawn into another case. When a daring bank robbery goes horribly wrong, resulting in the deaths of all the hostages except one, Rinaldi is called in to treat Treva Williams, the traumatized young woman who survived.</div><div> </div><div>However, what seemed a simple robbery soon explodes into a series of events that plunge the investigating officers, Sgt.Harry Polk and Det. Eleanor Lowrey--as well as Rinaldi himself--into a vortex of mistaken identity, kidnapping, and, ultimately, a fiery climax at an abandoned steel mill.</div><div> </div><div>Meanwhile, thrown together by the demands of the case, Rinaldi and Eleanor deal with the growing attraction between them, even as the recently-divorced Harry Polk spirals into an alcohol-driven, self-destructive free-fall.</div><div> </div><div>All of which is played out against the gubernatorial campaign of Rinaldi's former romantic rival, District Attorney Leland Sinclair. Until, as sudden death threats against Sinclair fuel a mounting frenzy of accusations and political maneuvering, Rinaldi finds himself facing the reality that the two cases might somehow be connected. And that now, what he knows--or <I>thinks</I> he knows--makes him a target as well...</div><div> </div><div><I>Fever Dream </I>is the second book in the Daniel Rinaldi series, following <I>Mirror Image</I>.</div>