Young, successful men with unblemished reputations—each of them living a contented, "normal" life—are being murdered, one month apart. The killings seem to be unconnected, but are they? Are there dark secrets in the dead men’s pasts? Homicide Detective Harry Stark has to untangle the mystery of the links among these men in a case that takes him and his partner, Noel Harris, on a tortuous and deadly trip into the world of shadows.