Until we get an ID, she is "the girl with the Flamenco Tattoo." Or at least, she was.
Who is she, where did she come from, and how did she end up dead on the shore of a mountain lake?
Billy Ray Blanco, a small town sheriff with higher aspirations, must find the answers to these questions when he has no experience with murder or anything close to it. And yet if his political dreams are to be realized, he must solve the crime that will have a ripple effect on a whole lot of locals.
As with any town, large or small, there are people with dark secrets, people like the coroner with a former drug habit, the cop who once shot a girl, the straying wife of the county's richest citizen--the town's most powerful man who would like the whole investigation to go away...