No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York's most posh dating sersvice, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. Lt. Eve Dallas, on the trail of a ritualistic serial killer, has mde a disturbing discovery ; all of the victimes have been traced to Personally Yours. More to her concern is the latest serial killer who is using "The Twelve Days of Christmas: as a theme.

Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Detective Eve Dallas is replaying the clues in her mind. He hadn't intended to kill her. But now he's left with two choices: hole up in fear and guilt--or start hunting again.

Walter Pettibone gets the rurprise of his life at his surprise birthday, when after a sip of champagne, he drops dead. Julie Dockport, a woman unknown to the party goeers, is responsible for the deadly drink.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates a brutal crime that plunges her into the art world, where nothing is what it seems.

On one of the city's hottest nights, New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is sent to Central Park and into a hellish new investigation. The Victim is found on the rocks, just above the still dark water of the lake. Around her neck is a single red ribbon. Her hands are posed, as if in prayer. But it is the eyes-removed with such precision as if done with the careful hands of a surgeon-that have Dallas most alarmed.

No affairs, no criminal connections, no DNA and no clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The only survivor is the daughter Nixie, who was in the kitchen when the murders happened.