Bestselling author Sam Bayer is stuck.  Burned out from his third divorce, bored with the formulaic rut his writing has fallen into, and unable to deliver the manuscript for which he has been paid a stratospheric advance, he is desperate for inspiration.  But a chance visit to his hometown of Crane's View, New York, sparks his imagination.  Soon he immerses himself in an unsolved case of murder... (read more)