Down the Road

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Married journalists Dan and Iris Henniman have set up camp in a dingy motel in the middle of nowhere to interview Bill Reach, a serial killer who has admitted to killing some 19 women, for his official biography. Iris has previously spoken to and written about multiple killers; she sees this as a stepping stone to a byline that’s bigger than the title. Dan, however, is a business journalist, more accustomed to profiling Wall Street criminals than people who literally skewer their victims. They alternate days spent in the jail cell with Reach, one digging into his past and clarifying the points of his crimes while the other wanders the strip mall wasteland that surrounds them.