Rumpelstiltskin — Ed McBain

She's a rock star of the Sixties, hungry for a comeback. He's a divorced lawyer working to put his own life back together. Their one-night stand is brief but torrid.

When the next day, she is found brutally murdered and her six-year-old daughter is missing, Matthew Hope inherits love's toughest labor -- hunting down the culprit who may not stop at kidnapping and murder....