SOUTH PLAIN

Brock Madison is an all-star major league baseball player who is home in Fargo, on the mend from last season's knee injury. When Emily Ambrose, the girl who got away fifteen years ago, shows up asking for his help, he can't say no. The problem is, the help she needs is finding the person who killed her son and his best friend.

Brock's investigation takes him to the small North Dakota town of South Plain where he finds, among others, his nemesis from fifteen years ago, Martin Rogers, still married to his dream girl, Emily. Brock's theory that people love talking to ball players seems to be true, as he uncovers a lot of information about the population of South Plain, much of which isn't good.

With the help of the police chief, the high school principal, a waitress, and the students of South Plain High School closes in on the killer, hoping he won't become the next victim.