INSPECTOR Kate Martinelli has worked the SFPD\'s Homicide Detail for nearly thirty years.
What did happen in Diamond Lake that night? Was it an accident, or a hushed-up suicide? Or was her sister\'s death something darker yet?.
Mismatched fragments that change the story Kate has told herself all these years-the story that for her, was the beginning of everything.
Holes in the evidence.
Because once Kate begins to look, seeKing to reassure Nora that it was only a senseless accident and not the suicide a small town\'s gossip made it, she starts to find pieces that don\'t fit the picture. except it isn\'t.
Kate\'s kid sister died in the 1980s, a wild young woman who lost control of a car and hit a tree, end of story ...
Until the day her fifteen-year-old daughter, Nora, happens to ask about an aunt she\'d never met.
She knows all about how a cop builds a case bit by bit to create a clear story from the scattered pieces of evidence.
INSPECTOR Kate Martinelli has worked the SFPD\'s Homicide Detail for nearly thirty years