Crime writer Chip Collingsworth has settled down to a bucolic life in Turners Bend, Iowa. Both his personal life with Jane Swanson and her children and his professional writing life are sailing along smoothly. That is until the body of fellow crime writer Patrick Finnegan is discovered on the floor of a Minneapolis bookstore and two close calls convince Chip that he may be next. Murder and mayhem, scams and scoundrels, terrorism and trafficking suddenly abound in his life and spill over into his latest novel. In Head Shot, FBI Agent Jo Schwann is reunited with Detective Mike Frisco to solve the shooting of three college students and in the midst of her investigation, Jo must also sort out her complicated new life with Dr. John Goodman. Chip soon discovers that writing can indeed be murder.