Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days and she wants Boston's top detective, D.D. Warren, to handle the death investigation. Each year at 8:00 pm on January 21st a woman has died, and all have been childhood friends from a small town in New Hampshire. Grant is the only remaining member of the group, but is she the next victim or the perfect perpetrator?

Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed -- husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. On the wall, in blood : "Were coming." No apostrophe. There's something about the scene that tugs at Lucas's cop instincts -- it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale...