Jeremiah Healy moves from the private investigator field to the legal thriller in this engrossing novel. Sheilah Quinn is a frontline criminal litigator, retained by wealthy Arthur Ketterson to defend him against a charge of strangling Jessica Giordano, the woman he was seeing.

The trial judge in the case is sexually harassing Quinn, and the county prosecutor hopes a conviction will be his springboard for election to attorney general. As if that weren't enough, Quinn's father is wasting away in a nursing home, and a new, but problematic, lover has entered her life.

As Sheilah struggles with issues both professional and personal, Arthur Ketterson begins to stalk her in a manner he has perfected in the past. It is subtle, and even oblique, but terrifying nonetheless -- a pursuit in which Sheilah Quinn is the ultimate quarry and the people closest to her count only as milestones along the way.