Corky O?Brien has just been promoted to detective. He is the youngest in his class to do so and, on the heels of that promotion, he is given his first assignment. In a small town in northern Arizona a man has been found murdered in a ritualistic manner and every ounce of blood missing. The name of the town is Caratoga. He is torn between the vow he made never return to this town where he had spent his childhood summers visiting his sister, and his...