A federal judge is murdered in a small Missouri city. A young newspaper reporter, Hailey Fox, starts an investigation that leads to the discovery of shady transactions involving the judge and others in the community.–

Started out interesting but just became boring. Way to many scenarios playing at the same time, and few with any completion. It was very difficult to follow the main thread of the mystery because the author was more concerned with cutesy sexual innuendo between the characters, the story was secondary. ( )