A home health care aide's body floats in a rural Connecticut creek, and detective Garritt Kelly joins the investigation to bring justice to a community gripped by fear; Kelly will need to employ burgeoning forensic technology to secure a conviction.

The body of a promising young radio host turns up on the side of the road in south Houston; when Detective Brian Harris arrives to determine who wanted the second-generation immigrant dead, he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deceit.