Forensic expert Professor Nick Fennimore has engineered lectures in Chicago and St Louis - a ploy to get to Detective Chief Inspector Kate Simms. She"s in the United States on sabbatical with St Louis PD, and he"'s keen to see her again. Simms is working...

DI Kate Simms is on the fast track to nowhere. Five years ago she helped a colleague when she shouldn"t have. She"'s been clawing her way back from a demotion ever since. Professor Nick Fennimore is a failed genetics student, successful gambler, betting...

A mother and daughter are snatched on their drive home from a cinema. The crime has a number of chilling similarities to a cold case Professor Nick Fennimore had been lecturing on. Then Fennimore begins receiving taunting messages - is he being targeted...