Skin in the Game

It's 1982, the scene is an elegant Manhattan apartment and the body of Craig Vitale, scion of finance is posed in his Eames leather chair. The killer surveys the scene and slips away into the night.The next day, Sheila Ross reads the newspaper account of the city's latest murder and her blood runs cold. Sheila left the Midwest to pursue her dreams of writer by day; stand-up comic by night, but she's mired in grief and guilt. Ten years ago in a sleepy Iowa town, before he was to leave...
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It's 1982, the scene is an elegant Manhattan apartment and the body of Craig Vitale, scion of finance is posed in his Eames leather chair. The killer surveys the scene and slips away into the night.The next day, Sheila Ross reads the newspaper account of the city's latest murder and her blood runs cold. Sheila left the Midwest to pursue her dreams of writer by day; stand-up comic by night, but she's mired in grief and guilt. Ten years ago in a sleepy Iowa town, before he was to leave for college, Sheila's brother, Sam was murdered. The killer was never found. Vitale was her client at the public relations firm she works for now and his murder echos her brother's a decade ago.Sheila's not the only one who fled Iowa for New York: NYPD Detective Mike Sloan, Sam's best friend from their home town is investigating the case. Sheila's high school friend Billy Miller, a financial litigator was investigating the victim's questionable professional practices, and Jane Brown, their brilliant classmate had worked with the victim in the past. As the investigation progresses, others are pulled into the killer's deadly game. Sheila and her old friends find their pasts converging with the present and each need to confront long held secrets. A killer has followed them from Iowa to New York. And each has reason to fear they may be next.Set early in the decade of greed, materialism and conservatism, the twenty-something characters grapple with themes of identity, loyalty and loss as they search their pasts to stop a serial killer who is playing the long game.