The Unrequited — Mark Goldblatt

Two rival tabloid reporters Calvin Hooker and Jewel Parsons set out for Elizabethtown a sleepy hamlet in upstate New York to write separate stories about Daniel Lockett a confessed killer rapist who castrated himself in prison.

Lockett has been paroled after serving only twelve years. Neither reporter is quite persuaded by rumors that Lockett might not have committed the crimes in the first place. But something doesn't feel right; that much they agree on. The reporters join forces and in the course of their inquiries start to suspect the rumors might be true. Lockett might indeed be innocent. But why then did he confess to crimes he didn't commit? And why did he mutilate himself? The search for answers may cost the reporters their lives.