"Jonathan Stride's best friend Steve makes a deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. The police dig up Steve's yard and find a body with a bullet hole in its skull. With the suspicion pointing at him, Stride finds himself off the case and on leave from the police. The clues all point to a hot Duluth summer years earlier that everyone in town would prefer to forget. Someone would rather kill than let long-ago secrets come out, and Stride has the strongest motive." --,(Source of summary not specified)