Based on the New York Times bestseller by Ann Rule. A small island community is turned upside down when one of the town's citizen's Russel Douglas is found dead the day after Christmas. Brenna Douglas was Russel's estranged and soon to be ex wife, who often complained to her former beauty queen best friend Peggy Sue Thomas that Russel was physically and emotionally abusive. Through an investigation that twists and winds its way through neighbors, a wife, and best friends, Russel's murderer is finally revealed.