Here are two serial killers, each wishing to settle a score. Meet Wilberforce Duggie Hansen, at odds with a mother who is a domineering drunk and has a bias against the gay friends her son wishes to bring home. She arranges never to have to confront the question again. And there's Marty Syrzinski, a Navy Seal dropout with a temper, who goes on a murder spree just because he can.
There are eight victims, with nothing unique about them except that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. There are also two bank robbers, freshly released from an Oregon prison, on their way to Reno, who resolve Syrzinki's killing spree.
A zip gun, a poison snake, a firebombing, stolen dynamite, an explosion, and three funeralsall within two weeks.
In this, the second adventure of Chainville Chief of Police Quentin Price, the Chief has the help of the California Highway Patrol, the Oregon State Police, the Klamath Falls (OR) Police Department, the Federal Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In the two years since the Chainville Theater murder, Chief Price has build the force of the Chainville Police Department to include a top-notch detective group and a crime scene unit, headed by an expert. Introducing an up-and-coming crime scene novice, the Chief's son, Quentin Price, Jr., or "QP2."
Come with us as we share the Chief's second mystery. Visit the Chief and his new love, banter with the City's gadfly, Doris Odland; listen to the City's Mayor McCheese (tm of McDonald's Corporation); and watch the antics of the Reverend Amos Wilson as he puts on a Northwesterner's version of a New Orleans funeral.