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John Wesley O'Toole, the disbarred attorney-turned art dealer and protagonist of The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes, returns to face another challenge when he is approached by a wealthy cryptocurrency trader wanting to invest heavily in quality works of art. A proposition that seems almost too good to be true turns deadly when the trader's body is discovered, and the digital code keys needed to retrieve his millions are missing. The situation becomes even more complicated when investigators find the trader's name was an alias, his background a mystery, and much of the missing fortune appears to belong to domestic terrorist groups. On the possibility that O'Toole had access to the codes before the trader's murder, he finds himself caught between the FBI, Savannah homicide investigators, and a seductive divorcée, each of whom appear to have their own agenda and none of whom can be trusted to reveal the truth. Set in the beautiful city of Savannah, Georgia, the tale twists and turns toward a shocking and unexpected conclusion as secrets are revealed and O'Toole discovers he can trust no one.

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During an eight-month period in 1977 and 1978, the city of Columbus, Georgia, was terrorized by a mysterious serial killer who raped and ritualistically strangled seven elderly women in one of the community's finer neighborhoods. Despite intensive efforts on the part of police the Stocking Strangler, as he came to be known, managed to elude capture. After the last murder in April 1978, the case went cold. In the spring of 1984, a series of fortuitous events connected to an unrelated murder and a stolen pistol led to the capture of Carlton Gary, who had recently escaped from a South Carolina prison. Following a dramatic trial in August 1986, Gary was convicted of three of the seven Columbus murders and sentenced to death, a penalty that would not be carried out until March 2018. This convoluted tale of crime and punishment is punctuated by dramatic and unexpected twists and turns including issues of race, alleged conspiracy and misconduct on the part of the police and the judiciary, a second serial killer active in Columbus during the time of the Strangler murders, the Ku Klux Klan, errors in DNA analysis, and a vigorous and prolonged struggle by attorneys and death penalty opponents who believed in Gary's innocence.

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