Linda Dawson's attempt to find out why her condo fees kept going up was stopped dead; her body was found lying in the Bellevue parking lot.

With the contents of her handbag scattered next to her body, and her billfold missing, most concluded that it was a purse-snatching gone terribly wrong. But from his exacting study of the crime scene, veteran homicide detective Jeffrey Marcum knows that when Linda Dawson left the Bellevue that evening, the killer followed her out with the intent to silence her.

Marcum and his tough young partner, Kelli Summerfield, learn that Linda Dawson had...