内容简介：
Boston Lieutenant Detective Jimmy Mathers and his Task Force were having trouble figuring out what a bi-sexual barmaid, an aging antiques dealer, an over-sexed stockbroker, a professional party-planner, and a student stripper had in common.other than that they were all victims of the serial killer the media had, for good reasons, dubbed The Boston Butcher. Mayor Ron Mordati needed the killer caught, and was ready to pull in a rogue cop (who spouted old rock lyrics like a warped James Joyce) to get it done. He didn't care that neither the police commissioner, nor the superintendent-in-chief, nor even his own chief of staff were all that enthused about it. He didn't care that the cop, the legendary Liam O'Leary, had been disgraced and out on disability for the past twelve years, the result of a notoriously botched arrest. The only thing he cared about was his re-election. With only the snow piling up quicker than the mutilated bodies, politically expedient partnerships fall victim to desperation, propelling events down roads, roads as poorly paved as Mass Ave. after a hard winter, all of which seem to lead directly to O'Leary's doorstep. Only after The Butcher defiles his young friend and leaves her remains scattered about the old abandoned Paramount Theater does O'Leary erupt from his monkish existence and bring his unorthodox and abstract yet frighteningly precise methodology to bear in Mathers' investigation. But does O'Leary still possess his storied prowess, or has a dozen years of intellectual torpor coupled with his self-destructive life style so tainted it that he will bring Mathers' precariously engineered investigation crashing down on everyone but the killer? Ultimately itwould have been better for more than a few people if they had just Let Sleeping Dogs. . . .