Homicide Sergeant Harding Knox still wrestles with the death of his wife, yet rediscovers a relationship with a former lover. Then, on an Autumn Sunday, a state court judge is murdered at his wife’s grave in a south Minneapolis cemetery. Hours later, two young Native-Americans are found brutally slain near the Mississippi River. Items of evidence link both crimes. But what possibly could be the motive, and who was behind the hits?

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Events lead Knox to Mackinac Island, Michigan, and to a woman of mystery in the Black Hills of South Dakota. A person of interest, and his henchmen are identified, but Knox becomes embroiled in conflicting federal interests. An attack in a hotel, interstate theft, a drug bust gone wrong, a plane crash, and a deadly encounter with a bear lead to an unforeseen suspect, and a powerful case closure. Some things are not always as they seem.