Death Most Wicked The Devil's Due Collection - Book 1 While investigating a string of child abductions/murders, highly decorated Homicide Detective Mikael Ruskoff is contacted by a man from his past, his father. The same man that he and his mother fled Russia to escape from because of his abuse and involvement with the underworld. Now his father demands that Mikael join him as his successor in his evil doings. Mikael is just as adamant that will never happen. So his father slowly begins to murder his loved ones, one at a time.