Neighborhood Watch

Spanning from 1936 to 2020, the interconnected stories crisscross back and forth across America and weave through the lives of average Americans with direct, and sometimes indirect, connections to crime. A college student interviews female killers as research for his thesis. A thief specializes in a certain macabre brand of merchandise that he sells exclusively on the Darknet. A husband and wife swinger team get in over their heads during an out-of-town weekend tryst. With stories written in narrative and editorial styles, Raistlin Skelley presents an unflinching look at the lives of average Americans and their dark past-times with a sharp morbid wit, furious unflinching hard-boiled detail, and a flagrant disregard for moral and social norms.