An ordinary criminal attacks at the first opportunity. It doesn't matter who turns up. He attacks when the victim finds himself alone in the wrong place and at the wrong time. But this one preyed on a certain type of woman: tall, slender, over twenty. Always be on guard. The men you meet at the grocery store. Dishwashers at the corner restaurant. Doorman A random fellow traveler on the subway. The scary world of Edgar Allan Poe's stories. The cruel world of modern New York. In Linda Fairstein's gripping new detective story, these worlds are intertwined so closely that it is sometimes impossible to understand where reality ends and literary fiction begins.