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When true crime podcaster Mercy St. Claire's best friend Alice gets kidnapped, it plunges her into the terrible realities of cold cases in a broken America. She turns to her beloved professor, retired criminalist Mark Thoreau, to try and find Alice, but grief, passion, and a descending darkness of terrible truths push them to take comfort in each other while killers go free. Nobody has answers.Mercy and Mark are determined to get those answers...but justice has a cost.

A driven young grad student begins using her true crime podcast to help save her missing best friend, and she soon finds herself leading a small team of crime solvers to uncover local truths that are eluding the police. Mercy is joined by her treasured mentor, cop-turned-criminology professor Mark Thoreau, by absurdly affable Post reporter Tohru Iwasaki, and by celebrity trans Youtuber Chizzy Williams in her search for the hard truths, and it's amazing what a team of the right people can do, even under the worst of circumstances. Ultimately, however, the most brutal discoveries they have to deal with are the ones they're hiding from each other - especially the horrible truth that Mark is helplessly in love with his young protegee, something he barely dares admit to himself.

True crime social media sensations and citizen sleuths Mercy St. Claire and Chizzy Williams are working themselves sick trying to solve DC's numerous cold cases. Meanwhile, retired criminalist Mark Thoreau is nursing a broken heart and a bottle of bourbon, and local reporter Tohru Iwasaki is serving as the inspiration for a mystery novel. When a child is abducted from the school that Mark's daughter attends, they all come together to investigate the case, but Mark can't take his mind off of Mercy, and Tohru might have bitten off a little more than he can chew when it comes to playing the hero detective. Just when it looks like things can't get any more complicated, the investigation leads the team to an underground, after hours theater company, and to a ragtag cast of actors who know the art of keeping secrets.

As Mercy, Mark, and Tohru cope with the devastating aftermath of a drunken car crash, it becomes clearer and clearer that things can't continue as they are. Before they have a chance to set the world right again, however, women begin dropping dead around them in rapid succession, and the only connection between those women seems to be their involvement in Mercy's recent investigations. Solving and stopping these killings needs to be top priority, but emotions are running high, and relationships are strained as Mark deals with his alcoholism, Tohru learns a new way of life, and Mercy realizes that love is a far more painful experience than she may be ready to accept.