Clara Rinker is a Southern woman, trim, pleasant, attractive - and the best hitwoman in the business. She isn't showy, not one of those movie killers; she just goes about her business, collects her money and goes home.
It's when she's hired for a job in Minnesota that things become complicated for her. A defense attorney wants a rival eliminated, and that's fine. But then a witness survives, the attorney starts acting weird, this big cop Davenport gets on her case, and loose ends begin popping up faster than a sweater unravelling. Clara hates loose ends, and she only knows one way of dealing with them: you start cutting them off, one after the other, until they're all gone.
Suddenly Davenport is up against the most efficient and ruthlessly intelligent killer he's ever faced. And Clara Rinker knows his weak spots better than anyone else . . .
