Sprawling beneath the statue of William Penn, Philadelphia is a city of downtrodden crack houses and upscale brownstones. Somewhere in this concrete crazy quilt, one teenage Catholic girl is writing in her diary, another is pouring her heart out to a friend, and yet another is praying. And elsewhere, an evil man wants these young women to make his macabre fantasy become reality. In a passion play all his own, he will take the girls and a whole city over the edge. Veteran cop Kevin Byrne already knows that edge he's been living on it far too long. His marriage failing, his former partner wasting away in a hospital, and his heart lost to mad fury, Byrne loves to take risks, breaking every rule in the book. Now, he and his rookie partner Jessica Balzano, the daughter of a famous Philly cop, have just caught the case of a lifetime.Someone is killing devout young women, bolting their hands together in prayer, and committing an abomination upon their otherwise perfect bodies. Byrne and Balzano spearhead the hunt for the serial killer, who in turn leads them on a methodically planned journey. Suspects appear before them like…
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