First-generation Basque fisherman Conrad Labarde discovers the body of a young woman caught up in his nets off the coast of Long Island and joins the investigation with Deputy Tom Hollis to find the truth among the privileged families who reside there.
Cambridge art history major Adam Strickland travels to Italy during the summer of 1958 to research a famous sixteenth-century garden, and is drawn into the intrigue of two mysterious deaths that occured four hundred years apart.
