The Cost of Perfection
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Jake Bounds is a private investigator who's got everything going for him. His career is just starting to take off, and he has an adoring girlfriend who finally agreed to marry him. Then, disaster strikes, and Jake finds himself on the most important case of his life. He has to find a killer who is dumping the bodies of partially dismembered women in a park. In a town filled with incompetent police, and only his sister Josie for help, the task seems nearly impossible. Will Jake be able to deliver justice and get closure, or will he become the killer's first male victim?
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