Flawless

"Michael and Norman have an awkward relationship which is somewhat unsurprising. Norman having being incarcerated for nearly 20 years for killing his wife, comes to live with Michael upon his release. Michael, we sense immediately, is strange. He was raised by an aunt - Grace in a less than healthy environment.. He's almost robotic. He's lacking in emotion, empathy or compassion and can't relate to anyone. He does enough to manage the day-to-day interactions that pass for normal relationships with outsiders, but he's a fairly blank canvas. Into their lives appears the instantly likeable and lovely Lizabeth, a new neighbour who quickly strikes up a friendship with Norman which develops during Michael's work absences. When Michael and Lizabeth are introduced and an attraction develops, we have for a time the hope that normality may prevail as Lizabeth's influence and effect on Michael seems to offer a chance of a regular life with an emotional attachment and an end to his killing ways. The appearance of an investigator, Victor Flam hired by the wealthy family of one of Michael's previous victims into the mix threatens the uneasy equilibrium that is settling over our Woodrow men. Flam is shrewd and capable and within a short period of time develops a workable prognosis that could link Michael's team of consultants to the death of his victim. Norman is somewhat troubled and over the following weeks considers his son - his emotional detachment and his behaviour and as he continues to revisit his past and their shared history wonders whether he is the carrier of some murdering gene which has been passed on through the blood to Michael"--crimespace.ning.com.