Daddy's Little Killer / L. S. Sygnet / 302 pages

Wendell Eriksson, her father, was the most prolific hired killer in the history of the world.  He had two sideline occupations...  He was an adoption specialist and "Jersey Third Eye, the most notorious low-risk armored truck thief in the five boroughs."  He pulled the wool over his brothers in blue's eye for twenty years.  Sprout was nineteen when he was convicted and his death sentence commuted to life without the possibility of parole.  He employed Morse code at his arraignment hearing to communicate to Sprout an offshore bank account number.  At thirty-eight, her husband is ruthlessly gunned down.  Was it because he was working with the FBI to bring down a mafia kingpin?  Did his wife, Sprout, and FBI agent herself, commit the murder?  Helen Hamilton agrees to work for the city of Darkwater Bay as a criminal profiler.  The police department has serious problems, unsolved cases, and a historically inept medical examiner...and a serial killer.  Not all problems are resolved in this thriller, a compelling read with multiple suspects, sexual tension, and philosophical treatment of pathological/mental predispositions, guilt, and the nature of evil.