A Cold Heart

LAPD homicide detective
Milo Sturgis summons his friend, psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware, to a
trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally
garroted on the night of her first major showing. The details of the
murder scene immediately suggest to Alex not an impulsive crime of
passion, but the meticulous and taunting modus operandi of a serial
killer. Delaware's suspicions are borne out when he and Milo
find there's a link between the artist's death and the murder of a noted
blues guitarist. The twisting trail leads from halfway houses to
palatial mansions, and from a college campus to the last place Alex ever
expected: the doorstep of his ex-lover Robin Castagna. As more killings
are discovered, unraveling the maddening puzzle assumes a chilling new
importance --- stopping a vicious psychopath who's made cold-blood
murder his chosen art form.