Frederick Coffin

When LA detective Mason Storm uncovers political corruption his home is attacked before he can expose it. His wife and child are murdered and he's left for dead. After surviving a seven-year coma Storm regains consciousness, desperate to avenge the deaths...

Tough female private eye `Vic' Warshawski dates a former ice hockey star, whose body is later pulled out of Lake Michigan, leaving her to look after his 13-year-old daughter. Warshawski finds herself not only tracking down a murderer, but protecting the child from the local mobsters.