The hooker was young, pretty and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a ministers son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitutes father wants it opened againthats where Matthew Scudder comes in. But this assignment carries the unmistakable stench of sleaze and perversion, luring Scudder into a sordid world of phony religion and murderous lust where children must die for their parents most unspeakable sins.
