When Amos Decker returns to Burlington, Ohio, he is tracked down by his first homicide arrest, Meryl Hawkins, who still maintains his innocence. With Hawkins recently released from his life sentence, Decker finds himself questioning what had once seemed waterlight evidence. Is the real killer still out there ? As the body count rises in a new crime spree, Decker and his former partner Mary Lancaster have to dig deeper and reopen the old case...