Gabriel Thane is the sheriff and lifetime resident of Carin County Illinois, committed to upholding the law and keeping the residents safe. Lieutenant Evie Blackwell is a State Police Detective skilled at investigations. She launches a new task force to re-examine unsolved crimes across the state. She begins work with the sheriff's department on a few of its most troubling missing-persons cases, a deputy, his wife and eleven-year old son's disappearance,...

Collects three novellas in which a Wyoming sheriff searches for his missing mother with the help of a Chicago cop, the body of a Russian competitive swimmer is discovered by a fisherman, and a woman with a faulty memory tries to recall the details of a crime.