At Rope's End

Dr. James Verraday is a professor of forensic psychology specializing in eyewitness recall and criminal profiling. He''s a brilliant original thinker with a passion for social justice and a very a ...

Dr. James Verraday is a professor of forensic psychology specializing in eyewitness recall and criminal profiling. He''s a brilliant original thinker with a passion for social justice and a very antagonistic relationship with authority, especially the police force. So when Detective Constance Maclean appears in Verraday''s lecture hall at the end of one of his classes, he bristles. But the body of a young woman has just been found in a cranberry bog south of Seattle, and Maclean is convinced that this murder is tied to an earlier killing. The Seattle police already have a suspect in custody fo