Don't trust a soul.
A stockbroker in a small southern town gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders when a host of other people want in on the plot. Sheriff Thurmond Fowler, the by-the-book town sheriff for over four decades, works earnestly to try and unravel the town’s mystery and winds up getting more than he bargained for.
biting
frantic
grim
dramatic
suspenseful
tense
sinister
antagonistic
callous
foreboding
indifferent
ominous