A good cop, Robbie Brownlaw was thrown from a sixth-floor window of a downtown hotel and miraculously survived. The traumatic incident left Robbie with a fast-track career in the San Diego P.D.'s Homicide division . . . and a rare neurological condition that enables him to see people's emotional words as colored shapes-green trapezoids of envy, red squares of deception . . . Another good man lies dead in a blood-splattered Ford Explorer-an ex-cop-turned-ethics...

Middle school history teacher by day, bandit with heart of gold by night. Allison Murrieta plagues evildoers, stealing back their ill-gotten gains and donating her profits to charity. But when she witnesses a bloody execution, she becomes a target for a ruthless hitman as well as for a curious public who wants to know her true identity.

When the head of one of two feuding families is found murdered, homicide officer Tom McMichael, a member of the suspected family, is challenged to put aside his personal feelings in order to investigate.