A Cold Mind (Stuart Haydon Series, #1)

A Cold Mind is set in Houston in the early 1980s when the city was known as the homicide capital of the nation. It was a period of boom years for the city's exploding growth and the head-spinning homicide rate was a reflection of those chaotic years.

This is the first novel in a quintet of books featuring Stuart Haydon, a homicide detective like no other. Independently wealthy, and faithfully married to an architect he adores, he spends more time alone in his library than in after-hour bars ...