In order to get a better look at the body, Jazz and Howie sneak into the morgue late that night. William and begins investigating the murder on his own. William, that due to the fact that the body was recovered missing some if its fingers, he believes that the killer is likely keeping them as “trophies”–which is behavior Jazz identifies as typical of serial killers. When the young woman’s corpse is discovered, Jazz immediately suspects that it is a serial killer. Shunned by much of Lobo’s Nod due to his father’s crimes, Jazz has very few companions, with the exception of two very close friends: Howie, his hemophiliac best friend since childhood and then Connie, his aspiring actress girlfriend who always tries to get Jazz to see that he is nothing like his father. Melissa believes that, due to Gramma Dent’s rapidly diminishing mental faculties, Jazz would be much better off placed in foster care. Melissa Hoover, a local social worker, frequently visits Jazz at Gramma Dent’s house to check on him. His Gramma Dent is almost completely senile Gramma Dentis also violent, always at the ready with her shotgun. Jazz lives at his Gramma Dent’s home, the house where his father was born and raised. The novel opens with a young woman’s naked corpse being discovered in a field just outside of Lobo’s Nod.
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