During an early morning jog, Atlanta attorney Tom Halloran discovers the body of his friend and colleague, Elliot Carter, hanging from a tree in Piedmont Park. Even worse, the private and dignified Carter is grotesquely dressed in women s clothes. Halloran is convinced that Elliot s death is murder, not a tragic accident of autoerotic asphyxia-gone-wrong. But the medical examiner s investigator, Hollis Joplin, is skeptical. He knows how difficult it would be to fake that kind of death, and he s seen too much in his years on the Atlanta streets to be surprised by what people are capable of...