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INSPECTOR KATE MARTINELLI has worked the SFPD s Homicide Detail for nearly thirty years. She knows all about how a cop builds a case bit by bit to create a clear story from the scattered pieces of evidence. Until the day her fifteen-year-old daughter, Nora, happens to ask about an aunt she d never met. Kate s kid sister died in the 1980s, a wild young woman who lost control of a car and hit a tree, end of story … except it isn t. Because once Kate begins to look, seeking to reassure Nora that it was only a senseless accident and not the suicide a small town s gossip made it, she starts to find pieces that don t fit the picture. Holes in the evidence. Mismatched fragments that change the story Kate has told herself all these years-the story that for her, was the beginning of everything. What did happen in Diamond Lake that night? Was it an accident, or a hushed-up suicide? Or was her sister s death something darker yet?