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

“How’s this for a theory? Suppose these people run a more or less legitimate—using the term loosely—porno shop, making films like the one we just watched?”


“Maybe they have a darker and not-so-legit side, producing films of torture and other things.”


“I thought that sort of thing was done on the west coast or out of the country,” I said.


“Who knows where it’s really done? On the other hand, the bodies were dumped right here in Florida.”


“Yeah,” Janet said, “and they wouldn’t have carried them very far.”


“Speaking of carrying them far,” I said, “have you looked for similar cases in Georgia, Alabama, and/or the Carolinas?”


“Well, Alabama and the Carolinas might be a stretch, but Georgia is just up I-75 and I-95 from Florida. I-95 in particular crosses over a lot of rivers and tidal estuaries and isn’t all that far from the Okefenokee Swamp.”


Chapter 57