A Dime to Dance By

Chuckie Bishop, an unambitious young lawyer basking in his long-past glory as a high-school football hero, thinks he knows everything about his blue-collar home-town outside Boston. But when he's forced to defend a cop who has killed an unarmed burglar, Chuckie discovers that things are not at all as they seem.

Why are the town fathers so eager to prosecute one of their own? And what prompted a now wealthy writer to return with his beautiful wife to the town that had shamed him years before? Who knows what secrets are buried in the overcrowded town cemetery? In backrooms, barrooms, and bedrooms, amid the banter and bravado of men who reached their peak at seventeen, Chuckie finds a tangled web of political, financial, and sexual intrigue that may just destroy his dreams forever.