Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed€"husband, wife, two daughters, dogs.
There€s something about the scene that pokes at Lucas€s cop instincts€"it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he€s seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn€t seem to fit.
Until it does. And where it leads Lucas will take him into the darkest nightmare of his life.