Love triangleāmotive for double murder?
First loves are never forgotten. Ever. Certainly not for Tommy āPancakeā Jeffers. His first-kiss, sixth-grade love, Emily, who he has not seen since grammar school, is sliding toward divorce in the artsy Gulf Coast town of Fairhope, Alabama. Longly Investigations has been charged with looking into the finances involved. When Emily doesnāt appear for their nervously anticipated meeting, Pancakeās radar goes on high alert. Her body, along with that of Jasonāāone of two guys she has been datingāāis found murdered, execution-style, Pancake calls in Jake, Nicole, and Ray. Who would have done this? Could it be the soon-to-be ex, who has an ironclad alibi; the other guy Emily was seeingāājealousy being a motive for harm; or do the drugs found in Jasonās pocket indicate a drug-related hit? That world yields a host of suspects. As they peel back the layers of this idyllic community, dark secrets come to light and convoluted motives and methods of murder emerge.