One Man's Innocence

A fast hookup at a Duval Street bar ends at a woman's home in a small, upscale Key West neighborhood. A few hours later her roommate returns home and discovers her brutally murdered body on the living room floor. Within hours, Scott Hammerstone, the man the woman left the bar with, is arrested and charged with rape and first-degree murder. Hammerstone maintains his innocence, and his attorney hires an Upper Keys private investigator, Dominick Rehnquist, to find the actual killer. The victim is a recent transplant from Seattle; having only lived in the Keys for a few months. Unable to identify a single person known to have disliked her, much less anyone with a motive for killing her, Rehnquist's investigation quickly hits a brick wall. Rehnquist's search for the killer eventually leads him to the victim's past, toward a most unlikely suspect. Someone with a dubious motive, but somebody with the means to have committed the crime, remained undetected, and to have implicated Hammerstone; only, can Rehnquist prove it?