The lieutenant stood beside an oblong hole some feet from where the previous grave had been. "What does this look like to you?" Kinsey shoved his hands into his pockets. "A hole in the ground." "It was another grave." Lieutenant Sarkis fastened his gaze on Kinsey's face. "How do you know?" Kinsey surveyed the expanse of earth searching for evidence of their find. "Was there another body?" "No," the lieutenant conceded. Nodding his head in the direction of the forensics van, he added, "But there's evidence one had been here." What did that mean? Kinsey frowned. "So where is it?" "That's what I'd like to know." The lieutenant's tone accused Kinsey of playing skeleton hide and seek. "I know nothing about it." He felt like he'd been caught with a smoking gun.

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Simon Russell would be dead in a matter of time. Why would someone want to murder him? Was this an opportunity for his wife's old boyfriend to resume his relationship with her? Does his cousin's newfound revelation have anything to do with Simon's death? What did Simon's best friend know about the dead stranger found in Asbury Park? Did the stranger have something to do with Simon? Two of Simon's friends, Dark Ansgreth and Zoe Jantzen, work with Lieutenant Lance Cameron to uncover the mystery of Simon's untimely death during a reunion of college friends in historic Ocean Grove on the Jersey Shore. Is there any connection between the intermittent appearance in Ocean Grove of someone pictured in the crime scene where Dark's wife was killed on the west coast and Simon's death? Who put the prescription bottle in Zoe's dresser? Does the lieutenant actually think she might be guilty? Is Lieutenant Cameron's considerate attention honest concern for Zoe or an effort to trap her?