THE JANUS KILLERS is #4 in Annis Ward Jackson's Ellis Crawford Series. The time is sunny April in the small town of Battenburg in eastern North Carolina. But all is not dogwoods and azaleas and tulips! A young boy has been kidnapped, his stepfather has been murdered, and the ransom money is missing. Chief Ellis Crawford, along with his three man and one woman police force, must investigate a crime where clues are nearly nonexistent. Blackmail rears its ugly head and offers Crawford the answer to WHY but the answer to WHO evades him until aid arrives from unexpected quarters and helps him unravel the tangled web of one of the town's wealthiest residents who has been leading a double life.