Detective First Grade Brian McKenna receives orders from the top to team up with a second of the force's stars, first grader Tommy McKenna, and the murdered woman's outraged family demands that the two find her killer, at whatever cost. With the press demanding explanations, the two McKennas embark on a hunt for a sadistic criminal with a penchant for killing his victims slowly and violently. Their search takes them cross-country where they penetrate the seamy underworld of illegal pornography. But as their manhunt intensifies, they learn that there might be two murderers, working together for a reason that only becomes clear with time.

In Black and White, Dan Mahoney combines authentic procedural detail with relentless suspense and delivers his finest thriller to date.