Seagate and Miner believe that Cassie Lyons, a graduate student at Central Montana State University, was killed either by her live-in boyfriend or an influential and powerful senior professor with whom she was having an affair. But when a second victim is discovered, the detectives need to revise their theory of the case. Then a third woman disappears. Seagate and Miner race to find her. She is definitely the killer--or the killer's third victim.

Someone altered the software to make the self-driving car run down the man who built it.

The murder of a homeless man leads Seagate and Miner into a corrupt world of college athletics.

The murder of famous scholar of pornography draws Seagate and Miner into a horrifying world of campus sexual violence and exploitation.

Seagate and Miner investigate the murder of Lee Rossman, the city's oil baron and major philanthropist. In his long career, Rossman made many enemies. Some didn't like what he did for a living. Some didn't like the way he lived.

Seagate and Miner work the murder of grad student Austin Sulenka, who was found strangled, nude on his bed. Evidence suggests he spent his last night with a number of different women. As the detectives try to unravel the complicated couplings, Seagate finds herself in a three-way relationship that threatens to destroy her own fragile sobriety.

Seagate and Miner investigate the murder of Maricel Salizar, a Filipino exchange student. The evidence points to a professor, an LDS bishop who hosted her in his dysfunctional home. While Seagate takes it in stride that the professor can’t seem to tell the truth, her devout partner believes that a fellow Mormon who violates a sacred trust deserves special punishment.

Former detective Karen Seagate is drinking herself to oblivion and having dangerous sex with losers from the bar. The brutal rape and murder of a state senator by a lone-wolf extremist gives Seagate a chance to return to the department. With nothing left to lose, Seagate goes off the grid to find the killer. She doesn’t care that she will be fired again. She has much bigger problems, now that she has been captured inside the neo-Nazi compound.

Seagate and her new partner, Ryan Miner, hunt for the killer of Arlen Hagerty, the corrupt leader of Soul Savers, who created plenty of enemies in his ruthless rise to the top. Seagate's own life is consumed by her alcoholism, but nobody believes what she does when she finally catches the killer.