When retired Chicago detective Parsifal Ryan finds himself standing over the body of a girl he was hired to bring home, he'll find himself the number one suspect in a string of brutal killings that have rocked the town of Chapelwood, North Carolina. But the truth is more complicated than he imagined and trying to clear his name means going toe-to-toe with a psychopath hell-bent on seeing him take the fall. A Short Thriller by Michael Kay