Seattle police detective Lou Boldt and police psychologist Daphne
Matthews return in No Witnesses to confront the most challenging case of
their careers. People are dying throughout Seattle -- victims of a
madman who is placing poisoned food in neighborhood supermarkets. But
the criminal is intelligent: he writes the police chilling extortion
letters -- faxed directly from a laptop computer over public telephone
lines -- and retrieves his ransom electronically, through automatic
teller machines in hundreds of locations around the city. And while he
is a murderer, his crimes take place miles and often days away from his
innocent victims' demise. How can you stop a criminal when there is no
crime scene to study -- and no witnesses? Daphne knows that no killings
take place in a vacuum: there must be psychological motivations that she
should be able to determine if she digs deep enough. And Boldt knows
that despite the seemingly impossible task, there must be some forensic
trail that he can follow -- even if it is only through the netherworld
of computer networks. The two of them work their own ways, with their
own agendas, to track a killer -- only to find a truth darker than they
ever imagined. No Witnesses is Pearson's most accomplished and complex
crime novel -- a book that brings the police thriller into fascinating
new territory.
