When a stranger asking questions in the resort of Port Monto, Pennsylvania, about a thirty-five-year-old drowning is murdered, vacationer Chase Defoe investigates, finding that most Port Monto denizens have reasons for not discussing that drowning...
When Ivy League educated Chase Defoe, a security systems consultant, investigates an insurance claim on stolen clothing as a favor to a friend, he tangles with a murderous band of poachers and hijackers in rural Pennsylvania...
Chase Defoe, a former naval intelligence officer, helps his childhood sweetheart investigate the mysterious death of her father, a retired general, who apparently killed himself after burning all the notes pertaining to his memoirs...