The Substance of Fear

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>A small-town shopkeeper is found bleeding and unconscious. A former police officer goes missing. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Francis Hood a sheriff in Central Missouri steps into a quagmire of small-town secrets when he begins to look into these seemingly unrelated cases. He seeks assistance from Sandra Brondel a crime lab analyst who suffers from a severe form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She is aided by the missing man's brother Brian Rakestraw who battles his own debilitating social anxiety. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>As the investigation unfolds the threesome form an unlikely alliance confronting their individual fears while pursuing leads-sometimes together and sometimes at cross-purposes. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>When Brian's car is run off the road and Sandra is found in possession of incriminating evidence events take a deadly turn. Hood must separate allies from adversaries in his quest to learn the truth.</span></p>