Author Description

Porter Wren makes a living digging through the detritus of New York's most horrific murders and sensational crimes, searching for the twist that the beat reporters missed, the illuminating irony, the romantic detail that adds meaning to the relentless wreckage of human appetite and folly. Porter has a wife and two children, whom he loves devotedly. Why then does he telephone his wife and lie about his plans for the evening, minutes before he finds himself in the Fifth Avenue apartment of a beautiful woman with a story to tell, staring at her late husband's autopsy photos and reading the police files on his unsolved murder? Who is Porter Wren? The man who protects his family behind walls and electronic security devices and unpublished phone numbers? Or the one who will place them at risk to indulge his need to understand the dangers, deceptions, and desires that energise the urban night? And who is the woman who beckons him? What is her story?