The wife of a prominent Minneapolis executive is found dead in the couple’s secluded summer home. Not just dead—murdered. The crime scene is uglier than most. Put in charge of the case, Ray Schiller of the Widmer, Minnesota P.D. follows the evidence directly to the Twin Cities and the new widower. Unraveling Paul Davis’s carefully guarded personal life threatens the executive’s bid for the imminent opening for the presidency of ACC, the prestigious corporation founded and run by his father-in-law. Ray’s tenacity turns up more suspects, but with lethal results. Their greed, ambition and loathing erupt in deadly in-fighting. Just as it seems the case is about to come to a sudden, unpredictable end, a shooting incident lands Ray in a situation, which could destroy his marriage as well as his law enforcement career. Ray battles back only to learn the devil is in the details, and the details aren’t what anyone expected.

Paul Davis, a top ACC executive is found dead in the boardroom of the Minneapolis-based company. The Board of Directors claims it was suicide. And why not? Davis was discovered with a pearl-handled revolver in his hand and a bullet wound to his head. Detective Ray Schiller and his partner Dick Waverly, however, are far from convinced. Why would Davis kill himself less than twenty-four hours after finally taking over his late father-in-law's company? The Board and Davis' successor are quick to provide answers, but their actions suggest they're hiding something. And they aren't the only ones keeping secrets—not by a long shot. Complications infiltrate the investigation as well as Ray's personal life, and what originally seemed to be a relatively straightforward case takes a turn that puts his and Waverly's lives in serious jeopardy.

Repaying a debt of gratitude becomes costlier than Detective Ray Schiller ever imagined possible. A beautiful friend from his past becomes the prime suspect in her estranged husband's murder. Ray’s insistence on her innocence, despite overwhelming evidence, gets him removed from the case for conflict of interest, which leaves the case in the hands of his partner Dick Waverly. As stubborn as he is loyal, Ray’s inability to maintain a hands-off approach to the investigation leads to conflict of a far more personal nature. His involvement and the killer's twisted mindset collide, leading him on a nightmarish race to save everything he holds dear.

Was it a mugging or something more sinister? Either way, a man has been killed. The woman found lying beside him in an alley is in a coma. Answers may be as close as a four-year-old boy found abandoned in downtown Minneapolis, but he won’t communicate. For Ray Schiller and his partner Detective Dick Waverly, the silence is maddening. Jealousy? A custody battle? Their list of suspects and motives only grows when the discovery of a second murder victim complicates their case. Another kind of silence is troubling Ray on a more personal level. Waverly is keeping something from him, and the implications are becoming increasingly disturbing.

Someone has been killed, but who? The amount of blood and its location at the crime scene leave no doubt there’s been a murder, but where’s the body? Building on information gathered from the owner of the decrepit house where the murder took place, Detective Ray Schiller and his partner make a disturbing discovery. What they learn makes finding and identifying the victim quickly even more critical. Faced with that urgency, they grudgingly accept an offer of help from a publicity-seeking psychic. Even as her surprisingly accurate visions lead them to some unsettling conclusions, Ray is dragged into a fellow investigator’s personal crisis. But not even the psychic is able to predict the outcome of that situation or the ongoing murder investigation.

A chance encounter… A deadly game of cat-and-mouse… Detective Ray Schiller’s relaxing three-day getaway turns into a desperate struggle for survival. While his family faces an unexpected crisis at home, for Ray and his friends, the situation at their secluded campsite makes them the prey in a deadly chase through the surrounding untamed, backwoods terrain. The odds are stacked against their escaping the deadly, misfit couple and getting out alive.