Prologue
Most murders are routine affairs ... two men and a woman, two men and a bottle, two men and a few bucks ... but not the rifle murder of Cyrus Cartell in a Phoenix motel bedroom. Before Mike Williams, Chief Investigator for the Phoenix Police Force, unravels the murder, two others are dead and among the human impulses Williams must sift through are sadism, incest, sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, race persecution, illegal harassment and downright human bitchiness.
The cast of characters he must work with includes the brutal victim, his oversexed wife and nubile and pregnant nymphet daughter, two youths on the verge of a gay relationship, a pair of raffish cocktail waitresses and a sinister stray who may or may not be involved in what rapidly develops into an epidemic of death....