When Nora Watts is approached by a man claiming to know her late father, she is thrown into turmoil as she is also struggling with her friend and mentor Sebastian Crow having cancer. What happened to her father that made him kill himself? She heads to Detroit to try and find some answers about his life, but she only finds more questions. But trouble always follows Nora, and it's found her, in a city that is as broken as she is. For fans of Stieg Larsson and Peter Swanson.