The Organ Grinder's Monkey

MURDER BEHIND THE BARS. EVEN FOR THE BRONX, IT'S INSANE...

In the Allerton Avenue Precinct, homicide can mean plodding, patient police work, a slow sweaty routine. But serial murder is different. It's the crime longtime Sergeant Shelly Lowenkopf and his fastidious partner, Homer Greeley, dread the most--a race to beat a psychotic intelligence at its own hallucinatory game...

The disembowelling at the Hutchinson Avenue Psychiatric Institute is the third to hit within range of the Institute--and the first within the building itself. Lowenkopf goes undercover and turns up a loopy confession--a deranged and strangely compelling tale of reincarnation and revenge. But there's a twist; it includes grisly details only the police--or the perpetrator--could know. And there's a catch; the suspect is a H.A.P.I. inmate, securely locked behind the sturdiest bars the State can buy...