PASSIONS OF THE DEAD Who slaughtered Jared and Carla Walker and their young son in their own home? Only their teenage daughter, the sole survivor, knows the truth. But it s buried in her traumatized mind leaving Detective Wade Jackson to weigh a tangle of inconclusive evidence and size up a gallery of suspects. A gang of carjackers may have graduated to home invasion and homicide, but Jackson s not ruling out a bitter brother-in-law convinced the Walkers ripped him off big-time, a young heroin addict in forbidden love with the family s daughter, or the former employer Jared Walker had on the blackmail hook. Meanwhile, as the recession hits Eugene, Oregon, department job cuts could close the book on Jackson s career before he closes the case. But when the only living witness to the massacre vanishes, the shocking truth and Jackson s best chance to solve Eugene s most shocking murders go with her. And a killer with unfinished business follows closely behind."