Jack Contino moves to Cape Cod, takes a job on the Dennis Police Department planning to live life in the slow lane, but things speed up when a black man is murdered. It's similar to a killing in Needham, but the trail leads to a South Shore white supremacist group. DeeDee O'Hare and Judy Black are twenty-somethings sharing a summer rental in Dennis. DeeDee worked in a restaurant with the victim and has a boyfriend, Jared Wilkes, a local bartender with a roving eye...for Judy. Jack checks them out and learns that Jared has a checkered past calling for close scrutiny. He finds that Jared and the hate group have a link. Mob figure Tommy Shea, Jack's old nemesis, is in the mix, but how is he involved? Jack has to find out. It's hard to solve a local murder when the Boston Mob has it in for you.