Publisher's Synopsis
When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it first appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in an emotionally charged case dealing with money, sex and distorted family ties. Somehow the combination of her past and present got her killed, but no-one is talking. Jesse has to speak for the dead, even if it puts him in harm's way.
