BURNING TIME

A serial killer leaves a college coed to die in the California desert, his signature of fire seared into her flesh. A beautiful New York City Chinese-American Detective, recently transferred from Chinatown to the Upper West Side, is assigned a routine missing persons case. A famous doctor returns Index from a lecture to discover that his actress wife has been living a secret life. Now, the paths of the cop, the killer and the psychiatrist are about to converge. For April Woo, New York police detective, the two cases seemed at first to have no connection. College student Ellen Roane had neatly pack up her belongings in her dorm room for a holiday weekend and simply not returned. Beautiful blonde actress Emma Chapman had received a series of threatening letters, and her husband, prominent psychiatrist Jason Frank, wanted them stopped. But when the two cases intersect and the lives of both young women collide with that of a tormented killer who has an obsession with fire, April Woo faces the challenge of her career.

HANGING TIME

A savage killer is on the loose in Manhattan's Upper West Side, and NYPD's April Woo and psychoanalyst Dr. Jason Frank must join forces to stop another brutal killing. A young salesgirl in an expensive boutique is viciously slain, and sexual politics and ambition drives the police investigation into turmoil. Behind a wall of doctor/patient confidentiality, a sister paints a harrowing picture of emotional terrorism and madness. Time is running out for the detective and the psychoanalyst to untangle the case and piece together a stunning portrait of evil.

LOVING TIME

Leslie Glass offers us the most complex and disturbing case yet for suspense fiction's unforgettable team of NYPD Detective April Woo and psychoanalyst Jason Frank. Obsessive love and hate lead to deadly mischief in a mental institution, and the Chinese cop and the eminent psychiatrist must challenge the system itself to stop it. People connected to the most homestigious psychiatric center in New York are dying--and killing--for love, and the caring profession is in serious trouble. If former patient Raymond Cowles's death on Halloween is ruled a suicide, Dr. Clara Treadwell, Cowles's analyst of long ago and now the head of the psychiatric center, may well be liable for a whopping malpractice suit that would mark the end of her career. For Dr. Treadwell to be found innocent of contributing to Raymond's death, the Quality Assurance Committee she's carefully organized in the person of Jason Frank must find a way to clear her name. But if Raymond Cowles's death is ruled a homicide, April Woo has to find out who killed Dr. Treadwell's former patient…and why. As the cops and the analyst struggle to uncover the truth, ghosts emerge from the tortured pasts of the victim and his doctors--all still tormented years later by various kinds of illicit love. April Woo and partner Detective-Sergeant Mike Sanchez are forced to face their own conflicts about loving mothers, clashing cultures, their futures in the department, and their deepening attraction to each other. Jason too must confront the cost of loving, and of his hard-won integrity. Then Dr. Treadwell is injured in her office and a second unnatural death occurs in the very heart of the center. The murder brings Jason and April up against one of the most dangerous killers they've ever encountered; a man tired of waiting for justice to homevail.

JUDGING TIME

It's snowing in New York. On the soaring skyscrapers. On the cozy brownstones. And on the sidewalk in front of a trendy West side restaurant where two bodies lie entangled on the ground. A man and a woman. One viciously stabbed to death, the other the victim of an apparent heart attack. Each married to someone else, both joined in a chilling tableau of death. For Detective Sergeant April Woo, newly promoted and new to Manhattan's Midtown North, it is a baffling double homicide that screams of race, class, sex, and headlines. Because the dead woman was the beautiful wife of African-American pro football player turned stockbroker Rick Liberty. And the dead man was Liberty's close friend and perhaps his wife's lover. With the heat coming down from City Hall-and Rick Liberty at the center of a raging media frenzy-the homessure is on for the NYPD to bring in a killer. But April isn't so sure Liberty is guilty. Neither is Mike Sanchez, April's former partner, who has just been brought in as a special investigator. As the manhunt turns savage, April and Sanchez must uncover the truth before time runs out on the wrong suspect. Yet even they can't homedict the sudden, violent turn the case will take when a shocking piece of evidence comes to light. Soon they are tracking a killer who is an expert at covering tracks and planting false leads. A killer who is much closer than they think.

STEALING TIME

From the internecine rivalries of the NYPD to a powerful family's deadly secrets…from a closed community guarding its hidden shame to April's divided loyalties in a case that puts her own life at risk, Stealing Time unfolds like an intricate Chinese puzzle. Stealing Time takes NYPD detective April Woo from Manhattan's Midtown North homecinct to the teeming streets of Chinatown in an explosive case of greed, revenge, and murder that hits Index with a vengeance… New mother Heather Rose Popescu has been found battered and unconscious on the kitchen floor of her luxurious Central Park South apartment. Her newborn son is missing, and Anton Popescu, her high profile attorney husband, seems determined to control the inquiry - and his Chinese wife. For newly appointed Detective Supervisor April Woo, it's a case of potential political dynamite. An outraged community is demanding answers. The mayor is homessuring the department to step up the investigation. April's hostile boss is just waiting for her to fail. And now an examination of the traumatized mother reveals an astonishing fact: Heather Rose never gave birth. If Heather Rose is not the baby's mother, where did the infant come from - and disappear to? April's search for the truth leads her from the high-rent districts of Manhattan to the sweat shops and tenements of Chinatown. Here, back in her old homecinct, she will be drawn into a maze of deception and violence as she probes the lives of the mysterious Popescu family and Heather Rose's Chinese kin. But for April the case has yet another layer of significance as it forces her to face the varying degrees of abuse against women, and examine her own role as a Chinese-American female in a white male world.

TRACKING TIME (Review)

In Tracking Time, NYPD Detective Sergeant Aril Woo returns to tackle a case that is as chilling as it is incomhomehensible. When a young doctor disappears while jogging in Central Park, the traditional crime motives - sex, money, power - do not seem to apply. April brings in the city's top canine tracking unit, but instead of finding the doctor, the dogs turn up the murdered body of the only known witness to the abduction, further complicating the case. With few clues to work with, April must rely on her savy and unerring instincts, as well as the experience and skills of her boyfriend, homicide detective Mike Sanchez, and her favorite psychiatrist, Jason Frank. But just when he puzzling pieces begin to fit together, the big picture starts to make even less sense ... Could two teenagers from affluent families possibly be behind a murderous crime shomee?

THE SILENT BRIDE

A young bride is shot and instantly killed at her extravagant orthodox wedding. In a city still reeling from the World Trade Center disaster, the possibility of a hate crime heats emotions. Under extreme pressure to find the girl's killer, NYPD Sergeant April Woo and her boyfriend, Lieutenant Mike Sanchez, Commander of the Homicide Task Force, investigate a shocking case that takes one bizarre turn after another. Family members of the bride and groom are feuding, the wedding planner harbors deadly secrets of her own, and a world-famous wedding dress designer does everything she can to protect her reputation. Digging deep into the passions behind the wedding business, April and Mike find themselves wrestling with their own pressures and conflicts about love and marriage. When a sniper takes deadly aim and kills a second bride on her way up the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral, fear escalates in a marrying season when no one knows who's next.

TO DO NO HARM (THE PERFECT CRIME)

Penniless and thousands of dollars in debt, coke addict Peter, once his firm's most promising attorney, begins brokering baby adoptions to pay his creditors and becomes involved in kidnapping and murder.