A chilling locked-room mystery! Impossible for the murderer to escape…yet, he did. Powerful officials conspire against Chief Bucky’s attempt to solve the case, including the KKK, whose members particularly resent Bucky’s friend, Charlotte, a Harvard-educated “Negro” lawyer. When they drag her off to a hanging—her hanging—Bucky reaches the end of his rope.
The Internet? Never heard of it. Smart Phones? Who you kiddin’? We’re talkin’ 1956. Energetic and eager to make his mark on what Time Magazine called the next great boom town, Bucky Ontario leave his Louisiana home and hops a bus to Defiance, Oklahoma—a town not particularly averse to murders, just to the embarrassment of them...
A sudden turn on an icy road, and Grayson Bolt’s life changes forever. Ordered taken out by a powerful mobster, he must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse—only to learn that he’s not the cat. There’s only one way out. But first, a young couple’s love must be sacrificed in unexpected ways.