In an affluent DC suburb, a successful luxury car salesman is gunned down execution-style in his bed. And the arrayed evidence eventually lead investigators to Mississippi and back as they close in on an unlikely assassin.

When the body of a devout Catholic divorcee is found in her smalltown Pennsylvania home, detectives must connect the dots between a silver van, a .32-caliber shell casing, and a bonanza of envelopes stuffed with cash.