Arriving home from an unsuccessful trip to try and locate the killer of four local women, Deputy Chief Levi Taylor learns of the murder of Paramont's former state senator, Judge Jason Craig Montgomery. Thinking it may be a 'grudge' killing, Taylor and detective Richard Samms begin to question paroled prison inmates formerly sentenced by the judge, along with males relatives of the parolees. Their investigation reaches a standstill until Samms mentions that the two men could be questioning the wrong people . . .

Betty Alt is the author or co-author of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction. She has an M.A. from Northeast Missouri State University and has taught at several colleges and universities in the U.S. and overseas. Alt is now retired and living in Tennessee.