After surviving the threat of a murderer and finding love with each other, George Martin and Mike Foster, best friends since childhood, are settling into a happy life. George's new promotion to the youngest captain in the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office keeps him busy, and his current case is no exception. The body of a fifty-year-old drag queen is found in the locked dressing room of a bar.<br><br>As George delves into the subsequent murder investigation, he uncovers a dangerous trail of murdered drag queens and young gay men that intersects with another case involving porn films, torture, and worse. He struggles to make sense of the murders, but it's Mike who asks the question that leads to a break in the case.

Drag and Drop

I brought them up to date on the case, including the request I’d just made to Janet to obtain photos of the other victims, concluding with, “That’s where we stand at the moment.”


“Do you think you could reenact those meetings in front of a camera?”


“We’re thinking of putting together a little training film on interdepartmental cooperation, starring your group.”


Chief Bridges read my expression and said, “You don’t look too happy at that thought, George.”


“Chief, a lot of people around here, myself included, think I get entirely too much publicity as it is. A training film featuring myself and my lieutenants at work will only make it worse.”


“Sometimes we have to make sacrifices for the good of the department, George,” the chief said.


Chapter 49