Dead Right Returning

An early morning boater is horrified to find the slain body of a young man tied by his wrists to the ladder on one of the permanent channel markers leading to the Manteo Waterfront.

This discovery launches a multi-pronged investigation into a network of drug dealings that leaves more bodies in the heretofore peaceful pre-Christmas December days at North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Crime writer Harrison Weaver is drawn into trying to solve who is behind all of the killings. His SBI Agent friend ...