When his investigative reporting leads to a source’s brutal murder, Pete Brady leaves New Orleans for good. On a whim, he buys the weekly newspaper in tiny Troy, Louisiana, a town with a style of murder all its own.
His new venture gets off to a rocky start in Killer’s Ink (1988) when his society columnist is found murdered in a churchyard. When he takes up the cause of an elderly ex-con in Death Notice (1990), Brady finds his own life threatened. And in Deerslayer (1991), he looks into a freak hunting accident that may not have been an accident at all.