Carina Quintana's latest case takes her back to New York City, where someone is leaving bodies, gruesomely stabbed in the heart, on church altars. Now wealthy and celebrated through her true crime books and settled in with the alluring Alice, the former chief of Miami Beach PD is in need of new challenges. She accepts a position with the uber-private investigations firm to which her ex-NYPD partner, Pete Simpson, escaped, and is immediately thrust into what may turn out to be the biggest—and most book-worthy—case of her career. Scouring the city's grandest, as well as its more modest, houses of worship, they hunt clues to a serial killer whose methods reflect a twisted mind, only to uncover what may be another deliverer of death, one whose own motivations can hardly be fathomed. Following up on the intriguing Dead On A Rival, Loose Canon is yet another of the author's (as Kirkus Reviews put it) "tightly plotted crime thrillers...sure to please fans of police procedurals."