Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney travels to a California ranch looking
to buy some prime quarter horse breeding stock. Instead, he finds
himself the prime suspect in a possible homicide when the ranch owner,
Clifford Spalding, is found dead. Confronted by a determined cop
unwilling to let him off the hook, Kerney decides to conduct his own
investigation. As he digs into the victim's background, he learns that
Spalding's ex-wife refuses to believe that her son, a soldier killed in
Vietnam some thirty years ago, is dead. Kerney digs deeper and soon
finds himself sharing the woman's doubts: Did Spalding's current wife, a
much younger woman, orchestrate his murder with the help of a lover? Did
a California cop collude with Spalding to keep his ex-wife from learning
the truth about her son? Slow Kill races from West Coast to East
Coast, as Kerney tries to extricate himself from a situation that could
ruin his career by finding the answers to a thirty-year-old mystery.