Thirty-year-old Harvard Economics Professor Nikki Chase is drawn into a web of adultery, greed, and racial strife when she sets out to investigate the murder of controversial Yale Law School Professor Amanda Fox, a blue-eyed blond whose body was found on a deserted street in inner-city New Haven.
A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor decides to use a radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder, but his efforts only result in another outbreak of violence.
Love, murder, and an international conspiracy are revealed in three interlocking tales involving an American surgeon in Paris, a Los Angeles detective in London, a medical resident in Geneva, and a group of industrialists in Germany.
The mystery of Norm Lewis's disappearance is thought to be solved with the spring thaw when his Cessna is discovered half submerged in the waters of an isolated Alaskan lake, but state trooper Alex Jensen is handed another riddle when the only body found in the plane is an unidentified woman, apparently dead of bullet wounds, and Norm is nowhere to be found.
While enjoying a little R & R on a beach in Spain, Rafael and his girlfriend, Virginia, come upon a hand sticking out of the sand and begin an investigation that involves drug dealers, murderers, and thieves.
