Boris wasn't cut out to be a smuggler. He just wanted to write a novel, and smuggling a truckload of hot auto parts out of Leningrad would, he hoped, give him cash to start a new life. But it wasn't that simple. For a mysterious psychopath begins stalking Boris, and instead of trying to buy a little freedom, he's suddenly fighting for his life...

With the help of his sister, Maddy, a forensic psychiatrist, Alex attempts to find the killer of the woman he loved. Using hypnosis, they delve into Alex's past, reliving events and uncovering unseen clues. But as they approach the horrible truth, the events of the past catch up to the present, bringing both Maddy and Alex into very real danger.

Nicholas Miller had been in Russia for several months and already he felt the tension and paranoia of being watched. What could the KGB possibly want with him? But suddenly a lovely Russian girl begs him for help, and then a green cab nearly runs him down. As his world turns inside out, Nicholas realizes none of it makes any sense -- until he discovers an old woman hidden in the catacombs far below Kiev.

When a former patient calls out for help, Maddy, a brilliant forensic hypnotherapist, must rely on her brother, Alex to be her eyes and legs. What Alex witnesses is murder...and Maddy must extract the buried clues and bloody truth from his unconscious mind in order to catch a killer, now a threat to them both.

The search for a cop killer leads reporter Todd Mills and his partner, Detective Steve Rawlins, to a beautiful young man with an ugly secret, to the shooting death of another cop, and to a drama of hostage-taking that unfolds in the midst of a summer storm.

Review"_Closet_ explodes out of the starting gate. . . then relentlessly races all the way to its shocking conclusion."--Minneapolis Star Tribune "Breathless pacing and virtuoso storytelling . . . Zimmerman succeeds brilliantly."--Sandra Scoppettone, author of My Sweet Untraceable You "R.D. Zimmerman is soon to become a household name."--Sue Grafton "Entertaining, intricately constructed and absorbing. . . A well-crafted mystery."--Twin Cities Reader "Zimmerman is a superb writer, building suspense through genuine surprises while creating believable characters."--The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel From the Trade Paperback edition. -- ReviewProduct DescriptionWhen his secret gay lover is killed during a series of grisly murders, Emmy Award-winning news reporter Todd Mills finds that everything he has worked for is threatened and desperately seeks the truth.

All he remembered was the furtive encounter, the terror of discovery, the burning cigarette. . . and the voyeur on the fire escape plummeting to his death. For twenty years, Todd Mills was safe, closeted, building his career as a two-time Emmy Award-winning TV reporter. He had it all--until his double life became front-page news. Since his lover's murder, Todd hadn't worked. It was the first pause in his professional life. Now he's out, warily beginning a romance with police detective Steve Rawlins, when an old friend, an ex-girlfriend, calls for help. The son she gave up for adoption years before has found her--and left his baby. Now she and the baby are being stalked by a cult of zealots who will stop at nothing to reclaim the child. But as Todd steps into the firing range of The Congregation, he's forced to face the nightmare of his own buried past, as murderous secrets return to kill again. . . .

Gay TV journalist Todd Mills's plans to interview a reclusive movie star are interrupted by the murder of a boy he knows from the local center for gay youths, and his subsequent inquiry turns up evidence that his own lover, homicide detective Steve Rawlins, may have known the boy intimately.