THE NOT MURDER MURDERS Back in 2000 a man and a woman -wealthy, healthy, happily married, many plans for the future, anticipating the birth of their first grandchild- commit suicide. A decade later their daughter wants Joe Torio to find out why. Then on Halloween night the smartest most brilliant cadet Soldier Heights Military Academy ever saw apparently blew off his very hot date and, all alone in his barracks room, filled himself with cocaine then strangled himself with his own officer's sash and died. The current owner of the school, Julia Powers, wants Joe Torio to find out why. Having had his badge taken from him, Joe sees what he can do as a high school English teacher. ROPE is book one of ROPE PAPER SCISSORS. the third mystery in the Joe Torio Series by award winning author Barry B. Longyear.