Vapor Trail (2003)

Read Vapor Trail (2003) Storyline:

"The snow is gone, the ice is gone - winter is long forgotten. When the
phone wakes Phil Broker at five a.m. on the morning of this forty-eighth
birthday - six months removed from his surviving a January cold snap
that (in Absolute Zero) nearly claimed his life - it's already
ninety-two degrees. It's July, and Stillwater, Minnesota, finds itself
in the middle of the worst heat wave in local memory." "The news on the
phone has nothing to do with birthday wishes, however. A year earlier,
an angry citizen served as jury and executioner by pumping twelve
bullets into a known pedophile - and in the process became a folk hero,
dubbed "the Saint" by locals. Despite protests to the contrary,
everybody in the community (including the police department) felt
justice had been served, and the investigation quickly went cold. Ever
since, strong rumors have circulated that the real reason the Saint
hasn't been apprehended is that he - or she - is a cop." "Now a priest
has been murdered, and a clue left at the scene suggests it to be the
work of a vigilante. Was the priest a sexual predator? Could the Saint
be back? For the members of the Stillwater law-enforcement community, it
means that a killer could be in their midst." The caller begs for
Broker's help: as an outsider, Broker can be counted on to follow the
investigation wherever it leads. But as the temperature mounts and new
victims begin surfacing, Broker wonders if he's been set up to catch a
bullet for a scandal that threatens to bring down the Stillwater Police
Department.