Water Marks

When Dale Donnahue brought an unmarked box to Rick Dante he delivered more than the notebook inside it-he dumped a nightmare on the Milford Iowa Chief of Police. The contents of that taunting notebook point an accusatory finger straight at Chief Dante-with the brazen implication that he hasn't been doing his job. The cryptic caption on the title page says: Milford Iowa: Unsolved Murders. The murderer must be a cocky dude with ice flowing through his veins. The notebook contains irrefutable evidence of five seemingly unrelated homicides: five obituaries matched to five signs which incorporate Milford's water tower into their sinister messages. Each sign follows the progression of the countdown to the grand finale: 1 down 5 to go . . . 2 down 4 to go . . . Rick and his police force must thaw five cold cases in search of clues. Unless they find the perpetrator of those heinous crimes the execution of 6 down 0 to go will stun the town. No one will feel safe anymore in Milford Iowa.