Mapleton Police Chief Gordon Hepler and the mayor can't
agree about what being a cop means. To Gordon, it's keeping
his citizens safe. To the mayor, it's generating revenue by
issuing speeding and parking tickets.
When two runaway dogs waylay Gordon on the way to what he
hopes will be an uneventful afternoon at a backyard
barbeque, more than his afternoon is interrupted. As dogs
will do, these have uncovered a bone. Trouble is, it turns
out to be human. When it leads to the discovery of more
human remains, Gordon needs to find out why they're on the
property, when they got there, and who they belonged to.
After all, somebody needs to care
Over the mayor's objections, Gordon pursues the
investigation of the bones along with an unusual outbreak
of petty crimes, accidents, and a dispatcher who seems to
be losing it. Before long, he's got more puzzle pieces than
he knows what to do with-and no puzzle to fit them into.
When people he loves are endangered, no mayoral directive
will stop Gordon from saving them.
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