Someone is killing young brides. When Gray Ballard has the bad luck to be in the vicinity of the crime and finds the first one, she is nude, on her back, with a small caliber bullet wound to the left side of her chest. Her clothes are neatly folded and stacked on a chair nearby. Forced into retirement from his career as a homicide detective in the state's capital by a job-related injury, Gray has come home to Mount Union, Pennsylvania, finished with...