Karl Alberg was a big-city cop before moving to the "Sunshine Coast" of Canada. Yet he is stumped by a murder in the sweet little town he now polices: A woman has been found, propped against a tree, her pretty face scrubbed clean, and her slender neck slit from one side to the other. No one knows who she is, let alone what happened. And as the investigation progresses, the clues begin to point in the direction of someone Alberg is not happy to have on the suspect list.