John Cardinal found it hard enough digesting his wife Catherine's surprise suicide on long leave, getting visions of her, but also finding anonymous cards blaming him for her death. As he doubts the suicide, he calls markers from experts when back on the job for his private investigation. His deputy officially takes the lead while he 'reconvalesces', on a mysterious case with a double bloody murder in a lake house, both corpses being missing and traces of an unidentified witness - in fact Sam Duchene, the lover of real estate agent Randall Wishart. An apparently unrelated mystery is a young man's suicide after being dumped.
—KGF Vissers