Rook's dark journey takes him into Inspector Joe Zinn's precinct and on a collision course with Homicide Detective Jimmy Salerno. The Raimondo case was his and though it has long gone cold, it still haunts him.
Then another little girl turns up dead. And then another. The nightmare is upon them fast. The piano teacher has monstrous hands, the medical examiner is a ghoulish dwarf, and an investigator kills himself.
The FBI claims jurisdiction and the police and Rook race to find the killer, whose appetite is growing. Betrayal and intrigue is added to the deadly mix as Private Justice careens towards its startling end which confirms Sand as a master story-teller.
