While investigating two separate cases, Sheriff Joanna Brady must discover if the death of a family friend whose body was found in a limestone cavern is linked to the discovery of a fortune in $100 bills hidden in the house of a hoarder.

"Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his days all to himself. But too much free time doesn't suit a man used to brushing close to danger. When his longtime nemesis, retired Seattle crime reporter Maxwell Cole, dies in whats officially deemed to be an accidental fire, Beau is astonished to be dragged into the investigation at the request of none other than the deceased victim himself. In the process Beau learns that just...

For more than thirty years, the case has remained stone cold, the brutal murder of a local Papago girl, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler that was left on the side of Highway 86. This case haunts Brandon Walker, once the sheriff of Pima County, Arizona. This murder investigation may have been mishandled by his department when he was a young lawman.