Badge of honor

"Tony the Zee" DeZego is found dead and bleeding on the concrete, and it is clear that it was a Mafia hit. But one puzzling fact remains: Penny Detweiler, a wealthy debutante involved with DeZego, was also shot. Policeman Matt Payne is a prime suspect--even by the police!

Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it--and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly...

For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine: a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia -- where Payne learns that's not all. It isn't just Russian girls who are vanishing. Teenage girls are being...

The Camilla Rose that Morgan Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne had known as a teenager was beautiful and brilliant -- how was it possible she'd jumped to her death from her own balcony? Her brother tells Payne she'd tragically been battling a lifetime of mental demons, and there is plenty of evidence of it, but still -- something just doesn't sit right. The more Payne digs, the more complications he discovers. Reputations are on the line here,...