In a Mississippi backwater, slick womanizer Tucker Longstreet enjoys the good life, managing the luxurious family trust for himself, screw-up big brother Dwayne and sister Josie. Tucker suddenly becomes the prime suspect in FBI agent Matthew Burns s search for a serial killer, whose victims include two or his flirts, including crazy brute Austin Hatinger s daughter Edda Lou, who falsely claimed to be carrying his child. Tucker s new neighbor, retired concert violinist Caroline Waverly, initially mistrusts him, having just moved in to her recently deceased grandma s house, but soon appreciates his charms and generosity, even to Austin s abused boy Cy, and becomes his lover. But the violent crime rage is far from over.