The Woman in the Yard

Acting Sheriff Q.P. Waldeau Has Returned from his tour of duty in Korea to the small coastal town of Wilmington, North Carolina. Eager to build a career in law enforcement, Waldeau confronts the challenge of a lifetime when the body of a black prostitute washes up out of Cape Fear. When the first suspect must be released for lack of evidence, Waldeau vows to pursue the case in the face of his colleagues' willful disinterest. But when the killer strikes again and one of his victims is a white woman, racial tensions -- exacerbated by the recent passage of "Brown vs. the Board of Education" -- explode. Soon Waldeau finds his life -- and that of the woman he has come to love -- in serious jeopardy.