In the tradition of Ed McBain, a gritty police procedural adapted to a Harvey Chalmers type hometown America.

When a strange and troubled young woman stumbles bloodily to her
death in a small Upstate New York village full of the usual suspects,
Assistant District Attorney Jack Hughes, ordinarily assigned to
prosecute routine traffic tickets, finds himself enmeshed in a murder
investigation, exposing him to a colorful cast of characters on both
sides of the law and a remarkable defense lawyer whose beauty is only
exceeded by her ambition, and who is at once much more and much less
than she seems.

Jack's scuba diving trip to Maine with Sheriff's Investigator Bull
Heimlich leads to the simultaneous unraveling of a 30 year old mystery
linked in a strange sort of way to the great events of July 1969 when
men from the planet Earth first stepped foot on the surface of the moon.