When a most valuable player is accused of murdering his black wife using a baseball bat, a chase across Orange County begins. Residents of a rural community risk everything to solve this murder mystery that turns the cliches of the genre upside down. When "orange burns," the traditional is turned to the tragic, and back again. Still a story with humor, as only a novel set in 2020 could be, the issues of the year unfold as Officer Sandy Cortes and David Black try to stop the vicious killer. This whodunit will have you guessing, in desperation, as its characters are caught up in the horror of multiple senseless deaths.