Lieutenant Joe Boyd takes his family on a much-needed camping trip in the beautiful lakefront woods outside of town. But a leisurely trail walk with Chance, their new dog, goes haywire when he breaks loose. When they finally reach him, he's digging furiously. What the dog finds, turns their vacation upside down and launches Joe and his partner into a puzzling cold case homicide from the late 1980s. As they begin to unravel the evidence-aided by two women from a local writer's group-things point to an unlikely set of culprits. Their identities-if known-would shock the entire town. Some people will do anything to keep a thirty-year-old secret from seeing the light of day.