The body of Alex Capitano, a successful entrepreneur in Nashville, Tn., was found duct taped to a wheelchair in Vanderbilt's emergency room parking lot.
Immediately upon the media discovering that Capitano was the grandson and only surviving heir to the fortune of Eleanor Boatwright, a prominent and powerful blue blood in Savannah, Ga., the murder became breaking news across the southeast.
Franklin Baxter owns Baxter Funeral Home on Wilmington Island, south of Savannah. A long-time friend to the Boatwright's he is asked to go to Nashville, embalm Capitano's body, and bring the body back to Savannah.
Earlier, during the final stage of negotiations to acquire the Capitano company, the Fingerelli Investment Group, FIG, started using aggressive negotiation tactics, when Alex Capitano accidently drown.
Nashville detectives identify three locals as persons of interest. The FBI takes over when a background check show all three works for FIG who the FBI is already watching for criminal masterminding.
Upon gaining national attention, and with the Camelot-like life of Eleanor Boatwright, the news coverage takes on a mini-drama like feel, nicknaming the three locals as the Three FIG Newtons.
Feeling set-up, the Three Fig Newton's devise a plan to steal and sell Capitano's company. To do this they need the company documents/rights of which they've concluded are on a flash drive on Capitano's body. While planning an embalming room visit, they discover that Franklin Baxter is in Nashville. Learning his reason for his visit they discard their risky plan and employ a reckless plan to find the supposed flash drive. So begins Black Diamond.
The Three Fig Newton's, the FBI, the Boatwright Family, and embalmer Franklin Baxter all end up on the Caribbean island of St. Taino. You'll love reading and finding out why they are all there, what happened along the way, and how the fourth missing bullet led to the bizarre outcome, while revealing surprising heroes.
Black Diamond is filled with edge-of-your-chair events, psychologically disturbing murders, laugh-out-loud antics, reader-consummated sex scenes, envious romance, and narcissistic levels of greed.
Black Diamond is my gift to you as a writer, but also as a mortician. By creating Franklin Baxter, I was able to provide you the unique experience of seeing the world through the eyes of a mortician, specifically this mortician, B. Frank Hall.
