Lying in Wait

A Seattle fisherman has died badly–bound, tortured and set ablaze aboard his boat on Puget Sound. And with his death comes disturbing questions . . . and the key to a Pandora’s Box of evil that has remained tightly closed for over half a century.

Else Didriksen is no longer the beautiful, troubled teenager who disappeared from detective J.P. Beaumont’s life thirty years earlier. Now she is a homicide victim’s widow–frightened, desperate and trapped in a web of murderous greed that reaches out from a time of unrelenting terror. And the dark, deadly secrets that hold Else prisoner threaten to ensnare Beau and new partner Sue Danielson as well–and to rock their world in ways they never dreamed possible.