When Aspen Sheriff Kurt Muller is summoned to the home of his ex-lover Nicole Bauer, a beautiful, reclusive heiress, he is wisely more than a little wary. According to Nicole, her ex-husband, 60's rock idol Rocky Rhodes, has been stalking her. The only glitch in her story is that Rocky died twenty years earlier and many believe that Nicole was responsible for his death. Kurt is soon drawn deeper into her tangled web when Nicole is found dead, having fallen some forty feet to the rocks below her mansion, only hours after Kurt had seen her, and exactly as Rocky had been found twenty years before.Although the autopsy points to suicide, Kurt senses foul play when a man attacks him with a hunting knife and kills two of his investigator's key informants. Delving deeply into Aspen's social elite, he finds a host of high-powered suspects who may have wanted Nicole out of the way, each of whom have curious connections to the mysterious circumstances of Rocky's death. Frustrated at every turn, Kurt discovers that the truth may lie with an elusive woman named Pariah, the only living witness to Rocky's death, and Kurt's last hope of solving the mystery.Dark, evocative, and suspenseful, "Pariah" puts Zigal's rich cast of ex-hippies, Aspen's jet-setters, and die-hard environmentalists face-to-face with the broken ideals of the past, in a tightly woven, electric thriller set against the sweeping background of the Rocky Mountains.