"A Carmine Delmonico novel" - cover.

Its August 1969, and police Captain Carmine Del­monico is away on a family vacation. Back at home, in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut, first one, then two anonymous male corpses turn up-emaciated and emasculated. After connecting the victims to four other bodies, Sergeant Delia Carstairs and Lieutenant Abe Goldberg realize that Holloman has a psychopathic killer on the loose. Luckily, Carmines beloved wife Desdemona sends him home from vacation early. Carmines team begins to circle a trio of eccentrics, who share family ties, painful memories, and a dark past. They readily admit to knowing all the victims, but their stories keep changing. When another vicious murder rocks Holloman, Carmine realizes that two killers are at large with completely different modus operandi. He finds this case too close to home when he barely escapes being next on the body count. Sud­denly the summer isnt so sleepy anymore.