Joe Kenda examines a fuzzy image from a newly installed surveillance camera, while investigating the murder of five people at a shopping centre where much of the evidence is destroyed in a fire set by the killer.

The body of housewife Elsie Jennes is found in the basement of her burning house. Lt Joe Kenda finds no leads, until her son William arrives at a police station meters away.

When police discover the lifeless bodies of Sophia Gerardo, her four children and a cat, they suspect a ritualistic mass murder, then Lt. Joe Kenda uncovers a cause more frightening and deadly than anyone could've imagined.

Lt Joe Kenda gets an unexpected tip while investigating the case of 29-year-old Chris Devoy, who was shot to death outside a neighborhood bar.

After teenage runaway Maggie Fetty is found strangled to death on a mountain road, Lt Joe Kenda must turn suspects against each other in order to solve the crime.

Dianne Hood, a mother of three, is shot to death by a masked gunman on her way home, and Lt Joe Kenda uncovers a sordid web of lust and greed.

Fifteen-year-old Chuck Limbrick finds his mother, Betty, shot to death when he comes home from school. Evidence suggests a robbery, but Kenda suspects something more.

Fast food manager Missy Berry is found dead inside a running car at a deserted intersection, and Joe Kenda learns someone from her past may have wanted her dead.

Lt. Joe Kenda must comb through unreliable testimony from teenage witnesses when investigating the shooting death of a 14-year-old student stemming from a heated lunchroom confrontation.

When soldier and young father Layne Schmidtke is brutally beaten to death by a group of teenagers, Joe Kenda must reconstruct the chaotic scene using witness testimonies and forensic evidence.