Lost Girls

Bartholomew Christian Crane is dispatched to a small lakeside town in Northern Ontario with a brief to defend a schoolteacher accused of murdering two fourteen-year-old girls. The girls' bodies have not been found and the Crown's evidence against the teacher is scant.
After arriving in the town Barth begins work on a trial that quickly deteriorates into a nightmarish tableau of psychological terror, where the distinction between dream and reality is as fine as the lines of coke he relies on for inspiration. As the trial continues the teacher's - and the town's - past becomes more disturbed and the lawyer more stressed. Peculiar visions haunt his imagination; telephones ring ceaselessly in the dead of the night; the gargoyles above his hotel's entrance seem to be watching him; and sometimes, out of the furtherest corner of his eye - if he looks hard enough - he can see two identically dressed girls following wherever he goes . . .