Description

While responding to a Seattle job order, a local electrician shockingly discovers a dead body with a shotgun above a garage in an upscale Madison Park neighborhood. Instead of dialing 911 as he should have, he calls a local radio station to inform the world he’s found America’s missing rock icon, Corry Fontaine’s, ice cold body on the floor, possibly having been there for days. Police respond quickly and locate a “suicide note” stabbed into the dirt in a nearby potting tray, which set their tone — carved in stone — for making this a low priority investigation, which would require no effort on their part to solve. A trove of Homicide detectives dismissed the death as not being mysterious in nature, relegating the scene processing, the evidence gathering, and the official photography to patrol officers who were first on scene.
Months later, loud bangs startle Sergeant Paul Barnet out of fitful sleep, realistic percussion noises that only he can hear. His doctor dismisses the phenomena as “exploding head syndrome” and calls it relatively benign, a “normal occurrence” for police and military veterans. Barnett, however, shares his recurring dreams with fellow officer, Allison Dickson, a former Marine with spiked hair and piercings, while telling her he’s had second thoughts on the Medical Examiner’s official findings on Fontaine’s death report, which left the grunge rocker’s flamboyant wife, Kim Darling, with a veritable fortune. Three months after Fontaine’s death, Barnett and Dickson investigate another suspicious overdose death, this one the bassist in Kim Darling’s own rock group Gash. Evidence and rumors suggest she had seen Fontaine during the week he had been missing. (Based on the tragic deaths of Kurt Cobain and Kristen Pfaff).
Captain Low is a fifty-year Seattle Police veteran who responded to the scene of Kristen Pfaff’s death and also audited the Kurt Cobain file on the tenth anniversary of Cobain’s death, ensuring that crucial evidence was still maintained in police files and storage. Noted former prosecutor and celebrity attorney Anne Bremner says, “Excellent reading! Well done! I’d love to get this defendant in the courtroom and put her butt on the stand. She’d have a lot of explaining to do!”