A Dance at the Slaughterhouse

Matthew Scudder has left part of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple. But to prove socialite Richard Thurman arranged the murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife, the tormented p.i. has to sink deeper than he ever has before -- on a terrifying tour of New York's sex-for-sale underworld, where an innocent young life is a commodity to be bought, perverted . . . and destroyed.