It's almost Thanksgiving, and Hollis Joplin, a death investigator for the Milton County ME's Office in Atlanta, is looking forward to the holiday season, not to mention his wedding to Carrie Salinger in the spring. But his rare sense of optimism is shattered one morning when he receives what appears to be a set of crime scene photos. The victim turns out to be a former girlfriend, and her fiancé, a prominent black attorney, becomes the chief suspect. The dead woman's father, a retired Marin...


