The fetish novel that fuels the murderer's kills is a loose representation of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015).
Shemar Moore (Morgan) was a regular on the long running daytime soap, The Young and the Restless (1973) alongside Tonya Williams, who's father was a Supreme Court justice on the island of St. Kitts. Juliette Jeffers (Josephine Patterson) is a native of St. Kitts and plays a roll on Pretty the Series (2010), which also starred Kirsten Vangsness (Garcia).