Peretz' first novel, The Mosel Legacy was called "a page-turner that goes straight to the heart and the conscience." His second, again features Ross Cortese, NYPD. The discovery of skeletal remains behind the wheel of a Mercedes sedan, at the muddy bottom of a remote, ice-covered Berkshire pond, leads Sally McDevitt, (Chief of Detectives, State Police), to join Ross in working this colder than cold case. Are there sinister, murderous forces behind an attempted hostile takeover of the Broderick Corporation, or is Edward Cadmus, CEO, deluded? The story takes us from boardrooms to bedrooms,...

Vienna. March 1938. A desperate woman slips through late-night streets, clutching a bundle in her arms. Drunken Nazi supporters roam streets like wild dogs, waiting for Hitler's Wehrmacht to cross into Austria. Flash forward fifty years to New York. Ross Cortese, NYPD detective, down on his luck, needs money. He takes Polaroids of two pieces of furniture in his possession to an auction house. In Vienna, Erich Hanfnagel, wealthy collector, learns that important pieces of Secession furniture have surfaced. Determined to add them to his collection, he sends his daughter to New York. Ross's...

In successive weeks, two New York landlords have been shot to death, one in Central Park and one in Brooklyn. Could these be the acts of a disgruntled tenant, a business rival, or is there a serial killer out there? Ross Cortese calls on Detective Ruth Wilson, formerly a profiler with the FBI, to join the squad and assist with the investigation. Meanwhile, Doschenko, an ex-KGB assassin, has been on the run from Interpol since Ross brought him down from near the pinnacle of power by foiling an attempted coup in Vienna. Fulfilling a contract killing in Oman, Doschenko is given the green light...