When police find a man found beaten to death on the beach there is a mountain of evidence pointing to Bill Dillon... But is any of it true? Did investigators convict the wrong man?

Betty Mottinger, a postmaster in Elgin Ohio, is abducted in broad daylight. When her body is discovered 6 weeks later it sets off a cat and mouse game between a career criminal and a postal inspector that may lead to the identity of Betty's killer.