A Lying Silence

DEATH OF THE INNOCENT
Homicide detective Kate Harrod had not risen to be chief of San Madera, California, by avoiding ugly cases put this one shook even her. For Kate was more than a cop. She was a mother raising a child on her own, and she would do anything and use anyone to find who killed a little baby.

SEARCH FOR THE GUILTY
There was the baby's unwed mother, a pretty girl with a weakness for men. There was the absent father, a handsome ex-con who brought out the worst in every woman he seduced. There was a ravishing heiress with a taste for sexual slumming, and a child abuser hot from jail. And everywhere there was the memory of the tiny corpse--an image to drive a cop to the limits of the law and beyond...