The phenomenal series set in a future New York City returns as NYPSD Lt. Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly ordinary history teacher-and uncovers some extraordinary surprises. Craig Foster`s death devastated his young wife, who`d sent him to work that day with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the private school, too, and as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in a pool of bodily fluids-they may have been traumatized for life. Eve soon determines that Foster`s homemade lunch was tainted with deadly ricin, and that Mr. Foster`s colleagues have some startling secrets of their own. It`s Eve`s job to sort it out and discover why someone would have done this to a man who seemed so inoffensive, so so innocent. Now Magdalena there`s someone Eve can picture as a murder victim. Possibly at Eve`s own hands. The slinky blonde-an old flame of her billionaire husband, Roarke-has arrived in New York, and she`s anything but innocent. Roarke seems blind to Magdalena`s manipulation, and he insists that the occasional lunch or business meeting with her is nothing to worry and none of Eve`s business. Eve`s so unnerved by the situation that she finds it hard to focus on her case. Still, she`ll have to put aside her feelings, for a while at least-because another man has just turned up dead. Eve knows all too well that innocence can be a faAade. Keeping that in mind may help her solve this case at last. But it may also tear apart her marriage.