Beyond Spite

Spring 2002

Paperback 240 pages

Mystery

Mere weeks after a killer involved in a puzzling homicide is caught in the quiet bedroom community of St. Michael, Staff Sergeant Laurenson is on another case. The victim is alive, but Tiffany Skoreko, who has been beaten and violently raped, is found wandering barefoot and incoherent on a country road. Laurenson’s early investigation shows that the man they’re looking for has a history of chameleon-like adaptation to any locale and a gift for getting himself into the good graces of any woman. Laurenson and his staff must identify and find the criminal before it’s too late. This chameleon is a time-bomb on the brink of going off more violently than ever before, and this time it’s personal.

Staff Sergeant Laurenson first appeared in Tip of the Halo.