As the dreary, bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless. After moving to the cold case squad in order to spend more time with her sons, she misses her old partner, Sam Kovac. Sam is having an even harder time adjusting to Nikki's absence, but is distracted by an especially brutal double homicide: a middle-aged husband and wife killed in their home with a ceremonial Japanese samurai sword. Nikki's case, the unsolved murder of a family man, community leader, and decorated sex crimes detective for the Minneapolis PD, is less of a distraction: twenty years later, there is little hope of finding the killer. On the other end of the spectrum, Minneapolis resident Evi Burke has a life she only dreamed of as a kid in and out of foster homes: a beautiful home, a family, people who love her, a fulfilling job. Little does she know that a danger from her past is stalking her perfect present. As the trails of the two crimes a quarter century apart twist and cross, Kovac and Liska race to find answers.
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