Killed with a Passion

Matt Cobb goes to bat for a friend accused of murder

Matt Cobb, an executive who is tasked with smoothing over sensitive situations for a major television network, is used to looking disaster in the eye. But while traveling upstate to look into rising corruption in the sale of cable broadcasting licenses, and mixing with some old college friends, he doesn't expect murder rears its ugly head.

Cobb's former roommate, Dan Morris, is still pining over his ex-girlfriend Debbie Whitten, who's ...