A Murder Foretold

It takes a killer to catch a killer.

Charlie Novak's arrangement with his partner Owen is elegant in its simplicity:

Owen marries young women, insures them, and when he’s away on business,

Charlie stages fatal accidents. But when Owen's latest wife is murdered by

someone else, homicide detectives get involved. Fortunately, Charlie is an

insurance investigator. So he gets to monitor this case and steer it away from his

partner while he looks for the real killer. His main question: why their pigeon?

But his investigation leads him to a woman whose curiosity about the murder is

getting dangerously close to the truth. Charlie, disfigured since childhood, has

never known love. In his coal-black heart something stirs. And Charlie Novak,

meticulous architect of other people's deaths, begins to make mistakes. In this

twisted psychological noir, the hunter may already be the hunted. And the

conclusion contains what may be the most devastating love letter ever written.