There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much because the victims are all lowlifes. However, when vigilante groups spring up claiming credit for some of the murders, Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne hopes it isn't true. As the targets get bigger and events start moving out of control, Payne realizes that if he and his colleagues can't figure out who's behind this very soon, the violence could overtake them all.

For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine: a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia, where Payne learns that's not all. It isn't just Russian girls who are vanishing. Teenage girls are being lured...

"In Philadelphia--suffering among the country's highest murder rates--the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings--especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the 'Wyatt Earp of the Main Line'--and then the committee's combative leader...

Sins that ex-cop Lou Klein thought he'd buried return to haunt him when a woman from his past reappears. Born into a family of cops, Franny Patterson married into a family of crime when she wed Brian Haggerty, owner of one of Philadelphia's hottest nightclubs. Now she wants out, and she has approached her former love, Lou Klein, for help. While he can't ignore her plea, Klein suspects that Franny is keeping secrets from him, and when her overprotective...