Mark Grant

An eleven-year-old boy finds a way of overcoming life's obstacles with the help of a grumpy coach who aids him in having the best summer of his life.

Five women, none local and all unknown, have ended up brutally raped, murdered and on the cold steel of the embalming table at the local morgue. Dead-end investigations by the local sheriff's department force the state to send veteran detective Steve McCormack, who, along with rookie Jamie Garrett, fight a battle against time.

A brief, tense phone conversation between politically connected powerhouse Tom Buchanan and a desperate lower-class thug named Judd over Buchanan's bisexual wife Daisy, her working-class lover Lolita and Bartlesby, the enigmatic head of Buchanan's personal security force, results in an interlocking series of actions which culminates in a brutal murder. Thereafter the Buchanans, in a subsequent phone, conversation grapple with the fall-out from the crime, its alleged resolution, and the effect the incident has had on their open marriage.