Mark Grant

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.

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.

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.