BJ Gleeson and his wife/ partner Karen are visiting Delaware for BJ’s daughter’s wedding. They made a side trip, with family, to Cape May, New Jersey. BJ took his grandson and family to visit an old favorite beach of his: Diamond Beach. People collected small colored stones that washed up on the shore.
This day, unfortunately, a pair of human hands, fingers entwined and tied together, washed up on the beach. Within days, BJ and Karen find themselves working closely with the FBI and New Jersey State Police to track down a couple who are murdering young couples, dismembering them, & putting them in the nearby river. Within three weeks, three sets of bodies are found, BJ & Karen are brought in due to their experience dealing with serial killers.
BJ Gleeson and his new wife, Karen, are on a belated honeymoon in Ireland. BJ is searching out his early roots on the West Coast. They have been told of the beautiful sites from the famous Cliffs of Moher. As they walked, together, along the cliffs, they discovered an older woman, standing near the edge of the cliffs in tears.
As they talk, she reveals that her husband disappeared from these cliffs, the previous Sunday evening. As BJ & Karen come to her assistance, three more older men disappear over the Cliffs of Moher, all on a Sunday evening. Their honeymoon is slightly derailed as they work with the initial widow and authorities to uncover the explanation of these three "suicides", all older divorced & remarried men, & ALL on a Sunday Evening.
Maintenance men are during their routine of dragging the ponds to retrieve lost golf balls at an exclusive Golf Club in South Carolina. To their surprise and shock, they discover the body of a man, his mouth stuffed with golf balls. BJ Gleeson, residing in Louisiana, is called by a good friend, to investigate the murder on behalf of the Grand Strand Golf Club.
BJ’s relationship with his fiancée, Lieutenant Karen Gagne from the New Orleans Police Department continues to flourish as they plan for a wedding. By the time Gleeson has arrived at the Grand Strand, another similar murder has been carried out. Once again, BJ applies his skills in cooperation with the local authorities, based on his earlier experiences.
Irene & Vinnie O’Brien were trying to relax as they watched the Day of the Dead Parade as it moved through the beautiful River Walk in San Antonio, Texas. Their temporary evening of pleasure turned into a horrific shock. Irene’s aged mother had disappeared, rather mysteriously, from a local nursing home several weeks earlier. Authorities could not find her!
As a large float drifted slowly by, the O’Brien’s saw a large photograph of Irene’s mother- in a death pose, prominently displayed on the side of the decorated boat. The pair quickly gathered up their chairs & left the parade. They immediately contacted the local police, but Vinnie remembered a piece he had seen recently on a Cable Station. It had to do with an amateur detective who had solved a string of strange murders that had occurred in the Honey Marsh Swamps of Louisiana. The station quickly gave Vinnie the phone number of B.J Gleeson, who was now a fully certificated private investigator.
BJ Gleeson is walking along a water bed, one year after Hurricane Katrina savaged New Orleans. He has arrived in the Big Easy to give a keynote address at a national mystery writers' conference. He was asked to speak the prior year, but the conference had to be rescheduled. His positive experiences with a string of brutal murders in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey had developed a small amount of notoriety for this amateur detective.
He was just doing some general exploring when he noticed a commotion at the side of the water. Police & emergency trucks arrived to retrieve some bodies. As he moved toward the action, he noticed a naked woman being dragged up from the shoreline. She was naked from the waist up & her body had been badly mangled. As she was pulled up by the emergency crew, an elderly black woman bystander covered her mouth & called out "It’s the Wookie, at it again!"
BJ Gleeson is sitting at a South Jersey bar with his new girlfriend when an old woman totters in and sits down next to them. Crying and mumbling, she opens a small box to show a bloodied severed finger. "It’s my daughter!' she sobs. Follow Gleeson, a divorced family man, & washed-up baseball player turned teacher & amateur detective, as this event catapults him into a labyrinth of bizarre murders, which could be historical, gang-related, or cult based, in the middle of a cold winter in the New Jersey Pine Barrens at the turn of the 21st Century.
