Join veteran Pennsylvania State Police Detectives Fletcher Strand and Joe Bentsen as they unravel yet another complex series of murders. This time, they begin deep in a converted limestone mine where the body of a government executive is found, but was he murdered there or elsewhere? Who will have jurisdiction, the FBI or the PSP? Who would kill an executive said to be beloved by his employees? Why do the seemingly unrelated murders continue? Could the first killing be connected to a murder 20 years earlier?
Once Strand and Bentsen begin to peel away the secrets of both the victim and so many possible suspects, they find themselves all over western Pennsylvania learning more about each victim, the crime ring to which one or more might be connected, and how their investigation reaches inner circles of the White House staff and a humble farm in the midst of Amish country. The pressure is on for them to solve the riddle when Strand nearly loses his life in bringing a killer to justice.