Woods, Stuart

A top-ranking executive of a Hollywood movie studio finds his starlet wife and associates under investigation when a screenwriter friend is targeted by witch hunters from the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Stone Barrington has inherited a house on the island of Dark Harbor, Maine, from a cousin after the death of him and his family which the local police believe to be a murder/suicide. Stone, along with Lt. Dino Bacchetti, CIA agent Lance Cabot and Holly Barker, go to Maine to look into the deaths.

A newly appointed chief of police in a small Georgia town investigates the death of an unidentified teenage boy, seemingly the victim of a ritual beating.