Facade

A killer arrives in Avoca, Oklahoma, where he marks two murder scenes using skin from a dead man’s thumb dipped in the victim’s blood. He poses as a Texas Ranger and takes refuge in the home of a pastor-friend to get close to his next target.Subtleties in clues thrusts Detective Mike Canyon into a contest he refuses to lose: identify and nab the murderer or lose his wife Sunday at midnight. Officer Shannon Roe - who unbeknownst to Canyon is the killer’s sister - receives a promotion and aids Canyon on a trail of kidnapping, poisoning, and ultimate clash with the killer.

Steve Rush is a Senior Forensic Investigator for a national consulting firm in the field of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. His specialties are blood spatter analysis and recovery of human skeletal remains. He is a certified POST instructor, and was part of the development team for ＂Quincy,＂ a software program designed for coroners/medical examiners.