Penance

Winner of the 1996 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.

A Saint Paul PI investigates the murder of the man who killed his wife.

Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years the cold dark cells of the St. Paul Police Department homicide squad were his turf, and with the help of his partner he wrung confessions out of countless killers. But that was long ago. Tonight Taylor is on the other side of the desk. Tonight he is the suspect.
Taylor's career in the department end…