Detective Mac McAllister is investigating a missing ski instructor. As the case unravels, he discovers a web of lies, deceit, and murder that threatens to destroy everything he knows.

Storm Kayama and her partner Ian Hamlin are excited to get away from Honolulu for the weekend. Storm is supposed to check on an old friend’s diabetic son. This should be easy, but when the boy’s mother, Jenny Williams, turns up dead, Storm must find the boy before the murderers do. In the meantime, Ian is investigating the disappearance of Brock Liu, the son of an Oaahu shipping magnate. Are Jenny Williamsa death and Brock Liuas disappearance related? Or are they both linked to an older unsolved crime?

Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate.

Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise.