The Woodstock Murders

Detective Doc Wiley an ex-Army Ranger Medic a veteran of Vietnam and the Nassau County Homicide Squad no longer knows what he wants only that what he has falls short. Madeline Maclear director of nursing at an area hospital is a widow whose husband was a troubled Vietnam vet. She is trying to reassemble her life. The two rudderless individuals are thrown together when Carl an untraceable expert assassin with a private arsenal a fortune in cash and a perverse sense of humor returns to Long Island in the spring of 1999. Six former flower children that have all but forgotten an adolescent episode on the road to Woodstock in 1969 are scheduled for lethal vengeance.Carls targets begin to die in rapid succession along with investigators who accidentally trigger bombs at the crime scenes. Peace symbols branded into certain victims suggest a relationship but no one can fathom what that relationship is. Docs eclectic investigative team plays a frantic game of catch-up encountering colorful characters and chilling traps along the way. Public hysteria and political recriminations emanate from the case like shrapnel from the killers explosives. Only the victims glimpse the twisted reasoning behind Carls mission of mayhem. When one corpse turns out to be the buyer of Madelines former home the trail leads to the nursing director...