Midnight Murders

Set in 1993 in the small fictional town of Divinity, Missouri, Midnight Murders is the third person telling of the string of events and aforementioned murders which occur from late September to early November before a truly (italicized) burning resolve. The unfolding events center around the lives of Rhett Ortega, a depraved, off-putting 25 year old jerk who owns and butchers for Ortega Foods, his family deli. He stalks a man named Lapis Davis, who had been his lover 4 years prior and since then has installed a restraining order on the butcher due to consistent stalking and threats to his own safety. After Rhett brutally murders his father in self defense one cold September night, he begins to waver from sanity and slip into depravity. As people begin to go missing and Rhett's aggressive phone calls to Lapis become less of a bluff and more concerning actions, Divinity's residents only pretend to sleep in the twilight.