Deputy Investigator Cal Sheehan tackles the first homicide investigation of his career: a shocking double murder in an outstate Minnesota county park. In the mix of the tale, Cal is distracted by his dysfunctional family and two aggressive women trying to manipulate their way into his life. But Cal is ?unaware of just how manipulating both women are—and to what extent they will each go to get what they want.

Seventeen-year-old Silver Rae Dawson vanished while babysitting for her neighbors. Fifteen years later a landscaping crew, hired by Adriana Valero, Deputy Investigator Cal Sheehan's ex-girlfriend, uncovers her shallow grave. With little new evidence and suspects who seem to have solid alibis, it isn't going to be easy for a fairly inexperienced investigator to solve a homicide gone cold. But what Cal lacks in experience he makes up in determination as he relentlessly pursues the truth and ...

When Detective Cal Sheehan learns no one's heard from his childhood friend Mike "Hawk" Hawkinson in days, he begins an unofficial investigation. Cal follows a lead from Minnesota to Las Vegas, and back again. When Hawk's car is later found abandoned north of Prairie Falls, Birch County officially opens a missing person's case, which allows Cal to hunt for his buddy and investigate the strange circumstances surrounding his disappearance. But Cal doesn't know whether he's conducting a search...

On a frigid night in December, Sonya Donovan is murdered—but her untimely death is staged to look like natural causes. Detective Cal Sheehan learns through the investigation the sixty-four-year-old celebrity has created enemies not only in her personal life, but by hosting a popular and controversial radio show called Love 'Em or Leave 'Em. Cal has to work around Sheriff Patrice Clinton, who's personally involved with the family, to investigate those who have the most to gain from...