The Perfect Crime #33

When a killer behind bars recognizes his guard as the brother of a man he murdered, he sees a chance for twisted revenge against the witness who put him away. Kurt Lorn's festering hatred plays out behind prison walls, setting a dangerous game in motion between convict and keeper. Officer Jim Dugan, the guard who arrested Lorn at the scene, never imagined how far the killer's vendetta would reach.

An ordinary autoworker named Conan stops for cigarettes on his way home from a Detroit plant and stumbles onto a payroll robbery in progress—forcing him to flee for his life through an industrial maze of pipes and machinery while the desperate crooks close in. Cornered and outgunned, Conan has to rely on quick thinking and the deadly equipment around him to survive the night and turn the tables on the gang.

Alfred Dorne, a man consumed by hatred and financial desperation, encounters a professional killer and hatches a scheme to eliminate his troublesome wife—only to discover that she's already made a dark bargain of her own. When greed, betrayal, and revenge collide in the shadows, no one walks away unscathed in this tale of how hatred corrodes the mind and destroys everyone it touches.

Vern Snyder, a steeplejack plagued by distraction on the job, loses his position—but it's all part of a calculated plan to case the apartment building across the street where the wealthy Avery Robinson lives. That night, Snyder makes his move as a second-story man, slipping into Robinson's home during a rainstorm to rob him at gunpoint. But fate has other plans for a criminal who relies on the storm for cover.

Clyde Trotter, a desperate man facing heart trouble and financial ruin, accidentally hits a pedestrian while driving—then makes a fateful choice to flee the scene and cover his tracks by reporting his car stolen. As the police close in and secrets begin to unravel at home, Clyde discovers that no deception stays hidden for long.