A family lives in a small town, where dad is a English professor, mom is a stay at home mom. One boy who is 16 - in high school (Charles) Lots of friends, plays baseball as a sport of choice, close to the school year ending and they have an end of season baseball tournament - everything seems great. That night, a strange death happens to one of the players on the ball team. Team is shaken, nobody can figure out who would do such a thing. Summer jobs started - Boy (name him Charles) started working at a local fish factory in the town. Middle of the book - deaths keep happening and reappearing throughout the town, cant figure out who is doing it and why. Killer wears a mask on half his face, but coloured and ropped like baseball. End of the book - they realize the killer.