Hoag, Tami

Former FBI agent Kate Conlan, now working as a witness advocate in Minneapolis, takes on the care of Angie DiMarco, a teenager who saw the serial murderer known as the Cremator set one of his victims ablaze, not realizing the girl knows far more about the killer than she is telling.

Megan O'Malley, the first female officer of Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, teams up with local sheriff Mitch Holt to investigate when a young boy disappears from the peaceful town of Deer Lake.

The investigation into the death of a Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop is supposed to be a formality, but when Sam Kovac begins to look into the details of his death, he uncovers a secret life that may have threatened the cop's life.

Attorney Ellen North prepares for the case of her career when she is assigned to prosecute the man charged with kidnapping a young boy, but there are still many questions to be answered and Ellen is plagued by the sure knowledge that her prime suspect was not working alone.