The Dorchester Five

A playboy lawyer plunges from the roof of a Boston hotel. A Rhode Island strip club owner chokes to death on an aperitif. Both guys were spotted, shortly before their deaths, with a mysterious woman who leaves behind a trail of filterless cigarettes, purple lipstick, and French perfume. Both were also involved in an incident, years earlier, in Dorchester, Massachussets, in which an angry street crowd flipped the car of a would-be hit-and-run driver, leaving the kid behind the wheel disfigured and brain damaged. To any outside observer, the two deaths seem like isolated incidents, even accidents–but Boston homicide cop-on-the-rise Marina Papanikatis can’t shake the gnawing feeling that there’s a more sinister force at play. Eager, dogged, and determined to prove her worth, it’s Papanikatis who realizes that not only are these murders linked, they’re merely the tip of the iceberg in one vengeful femme fatale’s plot to systematically eliminate every last member of the original Dorchester Five.