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

“During a typical autopsy, don’t they usually weigh and measure everything?” I said.


“Yeah,” Janet said. “I’ll go back through the reports and see what I can find. The autopsies won’t be helpful in some cases—if you remember, some of the victims were missing body parts.”


“It might not be conclusive in any case,” I said. “As you may know, the Masters and Johnson study proved that erections are a great equalizer. Still, if the deceased all appeared to be somewhat better endowed than average, it’s one more factor to strengthen our theory.”


“Right,” Janet said, “and we know from that DVD that our boy Leonard is, as our witness said, ‘hung like a horse’.”


“I also asked Lieutenant Sanchez to check the crime databases for reports of missing young men who fit the profile,” I said. “It’s entirely possible that we may just be seeing the tip of the iceberg here.”


“What are we going to do about the porn company?” Gregg said.


Chapter 60