Once a cop. Always a cop . . .Ex-NYPD detective Dave Gurney is supposed to be retired. But people with problems keep knocking on his door. Like the police, for instance, who are baffled by a gruesome murder they just cant seem to solve.A young bride has been killed in the middle of her own wedding reception. The prime suspect – her new husbands Mexican gardener – is missing. As is the murder weapon – likely a machete – used to decapitate the bride.The police have drawn a blank. Its as if the killer has vanished into thin air. But when Gurney begins his investigations, he finds that a baffling murder is just the latest of many sadistic crimes committed by an individual wholl do anything to avoid capture.