The Palm Killer

In the explosive city of Belfast, where senseless, violent death is a daily affair, Detective Chief Inspector Cross discovers the grisly handiwork of a serial killer. A man obsessed by homicide, Cross—both British and Catholic—finds working among his Irish colleagues increasingly tense. But calculated, cold-blooded murder has no allegiance. . . .

There must be some logic behind the bloodshed, a pattern to decipher. Yet what Cross begins to piece together defies explanation. For a killer known only as Candlestick cuts across political and religious lines. And the secrets to his bloody deeds lie in an unlikely place . . . the motive, too eerily close to home.