Berkley, New York, 2004, 1^st PB pr.  ISBN 0-425-19544-9.  MMPB, 373+ pages.  Very good; some edge and cover wear, light reading creases on spine; binding sound with a lightly skewed spine.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘Two people are found hanging naked from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota.  What makes the situation particularly sensitive is that the bodies are of a black man and a white woman.  Lynching is the word everyone’s trying not to say, but as Lucas Davenport begins to discover, the murders are not at all what they appear to be.  And there is worse to come – much, much worse.’ (from first page)