: As Tracy digs deeper, she uncovers a web of financial desperation, failing businesses, and potential marital betrayal. Key Characters
: Evidence eventually links the body to Andrea Strickland, a woman who suspiciously disappeared months earlier during a hiking trip on Mount Rainier with her husband.
The story begins when a woman's body is discovered submerged in a in the chilly waters of Puget Sound. Detective Tracy Crosswhite and the Seattle PD’s Violent Crimes Section are tasked with identifying the victim, but the investigation quickly becomes complicated: