The Charleston Shuffle Life is a slow, sensual dance Some dances just happen to be deadlier than others Brent is a top rated criminal investigator from Cincinnati, Ohio His life starts to unravel after he learns that his wife is having an affair Brent relocates to Charleston, South Carolina, to rebuild his life While pursuing his new job, and courting a new relationship with Megan. Brent makes a profound discovery, the string of older businessmen dying while on vacation at the local five star hotel, are not the "natural causes" deaths that the local homicide detectives think they are A local woman posing as a high price escort, is taking their money and poisoning them with a transient, and almost untraceable, drug. Brent has a chance to reclaim everything in life, if only he can find a way to prove his theory to the local police, and help them catch this serial killer Brent can have everything he has always wanted in life If only he can learn to master the Charleston shuffle