I'm so glad I found this book while on holidays. The main character is Laura Winslow, a 40 year old, part Hopi Indian, computer hacker who has mostly given up hacking because she has seen too much violence while on assignments. She was hooked on Ritalin for a while but now her drug of choice is long-distance running. Her business partner convinces her to take one more hacking contract because the contact asked for her by name. Her live-in partner, meanwhile, is called in by the police for his expertise as a forensic anthropologist to determine if bone fragments found in a new development are human. The same marshal is involved with both cases and soon so is Laura. This is not a whodunit story as it becomes obvious fairly early on who the perpetrators of the murders are. The suspense hinges on whether Laura and the marshal can track them down and stop them before more people are killed. In true suspense style that question is not resolved until the second last chapter.

All in all I enjoyed this book and I will be looking for more by David Cole. I especially want to read the earlier books in this series to understand some of the references made in this book. ( )