Sydney Kirkpatrick's father was killed in a robbery gone bad 20 years ago and now that the man responsible is days away from being executed she drives to San Quentin to tell him how he ruined her life. But she learns that the kid who robbed her father actually knew him and wasn't just after his money.

Sydney uses her time between doing forensic sketches as an FBI agent to research back through her father's case to try to figure out who might have actually killed him. In the mean time, she learns that someone has put out a hit on her.

Trying to bring her past into her present, while keeping her mother's new family safe, takes Sydney off of her usual straight-and-narrow path. Her skills as a forensic artist are invaluable when it comes to putting all the pieces together in a story that'll keep you guessing right up until the end.

Harper Connelly has a special gift. Ever since she was struck by lightning as a teenager she's been able to find dead people. On this trip back to Texas to see their sisters, Harper and Tolliver are pushed back into the past when they learn that Tolliver's father has been released from prison and he's seeking forgiveness now that he's clean and sober.

Harper and Tolliver, who are not related by blood but grew up together, are finding it a challenge to be seen as a couple now and the only people happy for them are their little sisters who just want to be be able to wear long dresses to a wedding.
But in the process of getting reaquainted with their family some disturbing realizations come to light about the long ago abduction, and probable murder, of Harper's older sister Cameron. During Tolliver's recuperation from a gun shot wound they drive back to the scene of Cameron's abduction, see the scene with eyes of adults and learn that their current case and the lives of their family are most assuredly interwined.

Izzy Spellman grew up and joined the family business and her little sister is following in her footsteps. This has her family concerned since Izzy was quite the hellion as a child and because the Spellmans are Private Investigators. Anecdotes will keep you laughing as Izzy explains how she met each of her ex-boyfriends, how she and her best friend terrorized the neighborhood growing up and how she plans to find her little sister when it becomes clear that Rae has been kidnapped.

The third detective novel featuring Harriet Vane and Sayers' recurring character Lord Peter Wimsey. Harriet returns to her Oxford college to help with a particularly nasty problem and encounters issues of eugenics, the life of the mind vs. the life of the heart, and she realizes that she must deal with her feelings for Peter because, as she comes to learn, he will never do it for her.

Diesel is back and things get weird for Stephanie as she tracks down the bad guys because Diesel is an Unmentionable and he complicates her already difficult personal life. The bad guys want to control the weather to control the world and this is saying something considering it's Jersey!