The heat is on NYPD cop April Woo and Dr. Jason Frank to stop a savage killer--and time is not on their side. It all starts at a posh boutique on Manhattan's Upper West Side, when a young salesgirl is viciously slain. In the ensuing turmoil at the police station, ambition and sexual politics collide to form an unseemly undercurrent to a barbaric crime. And behind a wall of doctor/patient confidentiality, a sister paints a harrowing picture of emotional terrorism and madness for a prominent psychoanalyst. HC: Bantam.