Inspired by mysteries that still surround the case explored by Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, We Were Killers Once pits Brigid Quinn against a man who has gotten away with evil for nearly fifty years--and now has his sights on her family.In present-day Arizona, retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn and her husband, Carlo, a former priest and university professor, are trying to enjoy this new stage in their lives. But a memento from Carlo's days as a prison chaplain--a handwritten document hidden away in a box of his old things--has made him a target for a man on the run from his past. Jerry Beaufort has just been released from prison after decades behind bars, and although he'd like to get on with the rest of his life, he knows that somewhere out there is a written record of the time he spent with two notorious killers in 1959. Following the path of this letter will bring Jerry into contact with the last person he'll see as a threat: Brigid Quinn.
