The 87th Precinct gets a visit from one of the city's most accomplished criminals -- a thief known as the Deaf Man. Because he might be deaf. Or he might not. So little is known about the man who is harassing Detective Steve Carella with puzzling messages that it is hard to tell. But as soon as a pattern emerges, the detectives of the 87th are forced to hit the books and brush up on their Shakespeare -- because each new clue contains a line from one...

It should have been the night that launched a new pop idol. Tamar Valparaiso was set to launch her debut album, Bandersnatch, on a luxury yacht. But halfway through her performance, masked men dragged Tamar off the stage and took off, while the partygoers looked on helplessly.

Jessica's accused rapists were acquitted and Stephen, her husband, threatened to take justice into his own hands. After they are found murdered, she turns to Matthew Hope to defend her husband.

Hick Florida orange-grower Michael Barnes, looking to catch the last plane out of Manhattan after a business trip, gets hustled by a pair of sharpies. Minus his driver's license, turns his car over to a movie producer who ditches him and drives it away. Leaving the police station where he's reported his bad luck, gets held up by a masked Chinese gunman who leads him, when they're both chased by a police officer in lingerie (don't ask), to a high-stakes...

Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct faces the precinct's greatest foe, the Deaf Man, when the criminal returns to a life of crime in order to murder the city's graffiti artists.

Once she had filled the concert halls of Europe with beautiful music. Once her name had been in headlines, her performances heralded in newspaper around the world. Now she lay dead on the cold floor of a cold apartment on the coldest night of the year: a little old woman with a shattered bottle of cheap liquor by her bady and two fatal gunshot wounds to her chest Svetlana Dyalovich, found dead at midnight, was one more homicide in one more endless...

A long shadow looms above the wife of filmmaker Carlton Markham. Then a hand clamps over her mouth, and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short. Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Markham, who's been arrested for his wife's murder, but he says he didn't do it. Witnesses fly forward to proclaim his guilt, but Markham's not giving up on his innocence that easily. And when Hope digs...

Detective Steve Carella and the officers of the 87th Precinct work together to solve a series of murders.

"Who butchered a troubled young priest in his own church? Did an overzealous gang of neighborhood Satanists have a hand in the the bloody business? Or were there even darker doings behind the ornate closed doors of St. Catherine's? In a parish torn by sin, violence, drugs, racial tension and poverty, the cops of the 87th Precinct must throw the first stone -- and hope it makes ripples in a bizarre and baffling case that will test their faith, their...