Description
How do you solve a murder when you don't even know the identity of the
victim? That's exactly what faces the police in Opening Day.
Following a close brush with death as an NYPD homicide detective, Matt
Davis takes early retirement, and accepts what appears to be a cushy
position as Chief of Police of a three-man department in a small, rural
Upstate New York village. While out fishing on his favorite stream on
the opening day of trout season, Matt stumbles across the murdered
remains of a body, barely recognizable as a human being, killed
approximately six months earlier. With no real physical evidence-no
clothing, no identification, and no clues-it's up to Matt to not only
identify the murderer, but to find the identity of the victim. Woven
throughout the story, are examinations into the pasts of three possible
victims, all moving inexorably toward their unknown destinies. But, in
the end, it's the revelation of the unlikely killer's identity that will
shock this tight-knit community to its very core, and leave the reader
begging for more. Opening Day is the second in the Matt Davis Mystery
Series, and picks up where As the Twig is Bent left off.