A stab in the dark : a Matthew Scudder novel
(Book)

Still grieving over the accidental death of a child caught in crossfire, Matthew Scudder takes on privately the case of a mass-murder victim and begins a search for a phantom psychotic killer.

Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous...and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the P.I. is determined to avenge. -- from Amazon.