Synopsis

A young woman was brutally assaulted and murdered on a Los Angeles beach—raped and strangled beneath the fading light. Further along the coast, a boy barely old enough to shave was apprehended, accused of her killing. Quincy found it difficult to believe that this youth could have possessed the strength to commit such a violent act, and resolved to conduct his own inquiry. He began at City Hall, where the woman had been employed, posing questions and quickly uncovering a disturbing pattern: a se