Spanning from 1936 to 2020, the interconnected stories crisscross back and forth across America and weave through the lives of average Americans with direct, and sometimes indirect, connections to crime. A college student interviews female killers as research for his thesis. A thief specializes in a certain macabre brand of merchandise that he sells exclusively on the Darknet. A husband and wife swinger team get in over their heads during an out-of-town weekend tryst. With stories written in narrative and editorial styles, Raistlin Skelley presents an unflinching look at the lives of average Americans and their dark past-times with a sharp morbid wit, furious unflinching hard-boiled detail, and a flagrant disregard for moral and social norms.
