ach victim is young, attractive, and alone. Each one dies with a clean puncture wound to the heart. And each one is found with a macabre memento — a brightly colored papier-maché gondola carefully placed at her head. For a city where fear never sleeps, it is a nightmare that only a single, savege psycopath can inspire. For the perplexed cop who himself conceals an outsider's pain, it is the one case that must be cracked. For the beautufil career woman, is its a date with a seductive, newfound admirer.