SummaryNoelle Werlin, the beautiful wife of a rock 'n' roll
legend, was never able to shake the ghosts of her past, but
dying at the hands of one of those ghosts never crossed her
mind. In Woods Hole on Cape Cod, Noelle grew up as Neptune de
Oliveira's daughter Celestina-otherwise known as Tina the
Tease. Changing her name and running away to New York as a
teenager, she thought she could run away from her life of
unspeakable sexual depravity on the cape. Tina's body is found with a marlin spike through her heart,
raped, and sliced up. Her cocaine addicted, philandering,
rockstar husband, Butch Werlin, is the NYPD's primary
suspect. But the morbid class reunion of childhood
boyfriends who congregate for Tina's funeral think other-
wise. They think the murderer is actually from Woods Hole,
and that somehow their high school buddy Billy Bagwell has
been at the center of some gruesome web since their teenage
years. This psycho-thriller carries Billy Bagwell deeper and
deeper into long-repressed memories of 35-year-old crimes
from the days when Billy was known as "Bagger, the crazy
Bagman." As the days grow darker, Billy finds himself
caught in a turbulent tide of past homoerotic encounters,
lost innocence, rage, religion and lust.
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