Maggie and Michael Butler are found naked and very dead in a Wisconsin wheat field, murdered by two vicious shotgun blasts. But no one gets murdered in Kickapoo Falls, bucolic vacation retreat in the Wisconsin Dells, and home of the politically powerful Kickapoo Gunn Club. It is up to Deputy Pennington, the trusted number-two man in the Sheriff's Department, to find the killer. A top-notch marksman, Pennington had his sights set on Maggie Butler ever since high school, admiring her from afar for years. He has a hard time holding on to his fantasy when he discovers what the real Maggie was mixed up in.

The town's ruling elite closes ranks as the outsider Pennington zeros in on the truth. Almost as if following a shadowy master plan, his mentor, the sheriff - a top marksman himself - begins to turn against him. Pennington is convinced the answer lies back in the wheat field, and in a missing reel of movie film that will shut the door on the murder investigation, but open another into a deadly conspiracy set for election night.

Genre: Mystery