St. Francis of Dogtown.

A woman is brutally murdered in a quiet rural subdivisions. The killer is just leaving as Francis X. Lenihan, pulls up. Francis has come to serve papers. But there's no one home just as the "caretaker" had told him. Francis leaves his card in the door., and two days later, in St. Louis homicide detectives are at his door. Francis helps the police all he can, but they need more. If only he could sort through his beer-soaked memory and recall the vanity plate on that muscle car he saw. Meanwhile he has reluctantly taken the assignment placed on him by Rose, the formidable young woman who has tracked him down to his favorite bar: Find this son of a bitch and bring him to justice.