Pressure Point [Hardcover]

It started as a tragic but simple murder, an old woman killed in the street for her handbag. But as police detectives Terry Nye and Rose Tafoya investigate, they find very little that makes sense, and nothing that leads where they expect. Even stranger, Nye and Tafoya are pretty sure theyve been under surveillance ever since they showed up at the crime scene. And when they discover some shocking forensic evidence, they know theyre in way over their heads.

Dennis Cooper has been prosecuting homicides in the D.A.s office for years, but hes never seen a case like this one. The suspect that Nye and Tafoya have given him is no run-of-the-mill mugger. And theres much more at stake than a conviction. This case has some very powerful people very concernedand determined to stop Cooper at any cost.

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International success: Woods books have been translated into several foreign languages including French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Greek, and Polish.

Film: Woods nonfiction title, The Bone Garden (Turner, May 14), has been featured in multiple books and on the Geraldo Rivera Show and The Discovery Channel. Most of Woods novels have been optioned for motion pictures and two were produced. Rampage (June 14) was filmed by Academy Awardwinning director William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist, Killer Joe) for Miramax and Paramount. It starred Michael Biehn (The Terminator, The Abyss). His novel Broken Trust (Sept. 14) starred Tom Selleck and Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason. The screenplay was written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne.

Insiders perspective: As a deputy district attorney who handled thousands of criminal cases, ranging from disturbinl#º