Prologue
Betrayal.
etrayal.Sentence—death. A judge and jury of one. “No mother, no! Oh God no!”
The movie Psycho muffled the noise coming from the New York City streets that ran in front of Dr. Duncan Byrne’s private study. The large cherry hutch that encased the television stood against heavy dark maroon curtains, blocking all illumination from the window. A corner desk lamp and the doctor’s laptop screen provided the only light he needed.
Psycho A “to-do” list lay by his laptop, scrawled in a handwriting virtually unreadable by anyone but himself. No matter. He’d shred it anyway. No sense condemning himself with the evidence.
She would die.
She would dieHer divorce papers lay in a picture-perfect neat stack next to his legal pad. D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Nobody got rid of Duncan Byrne unless
