Murder in hot metal: a killer’s pain bleeds in verse, taunting Fox Argall toward molten death.
Palm Beach Sheriff’s detective Dr. Ellis “Fox” Argall is the rational one—the man of evidence, patterns, and a mind he keeps under tight control. But as the Ruby Skull case pulls him into the insular world of fine glass, molten metal, and glory holes, a killer begins a private conversation in borrowed lines, turning fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas into a weapon.
Each new stanza of violence forces Fox to ask why he works in the sleepless hours, who he is really serving, and what he is willing to burn to reach the truth.
While the town sees only headlines and glass-bright horror, Fox and the killer wage an intimate duel in the space between word and act, poem and crime scene, until the case becomes a ruthless contest of will that threatens more than his reason—it demands the one thing he is never sure he has to give: his heart.
Resurrection of the Ruby Skull is the fourth Fox Argall Mystery and the first in a duology, to be followed by Indecent Ink.
