Verde Key Police Detective Bev Henderson is faced with her first cold case when a skeleton is snagged by local residents out fishing. Once the victim is identified, his wife is stunned to learn he was murdered instead of deserting her forty years ago as she had thought. Regular crime is not taking a break though as other cases take priority. in the process, links to the dead man emerge as Bev weaves thin threads together to develop likely scenarios as to who murdered him and why. is the widow as innocent as she seems or is she hiding more than one secret? With no useful forensics evidence, will this be the one time in Bev's career she can't solve a case?