Called in to investigate a five -year-old corpse found beneath a parking lot, Bain suspects a local crime dynasty and their ruthless matriarch. While tracking down leads, he confronts his own attitudes towards wealth and power.

When a teenager turns up dead in a Celtic burial ground, the top suspects are her scorned boyfriend and the local psychic who discovered her. Inconsolable with grief, the victim's family decides to take justice into their own hands.

Plagued with nightmares about the death of his wife--killed 12 years earlier by a drunken driver--Bain takes a leave of absence to seek revenge against the man who ruined his life