Homicide detective, Lieutenant Beaudry is a tough cop. He's not always politically correct, and he's lost a few pages from the police procedure manual.

But he cherishes his Irish live-in girlfriend, puts up with his crazy Main Coon cat, and lives life on his own terms.

In Dead End Ride. He's working on a year-old unsolved murder where the female victim has yet to be identified.

He gets a second case, where the body of a biker is found in a car trunk at the airport parking, it lights the fuse for motorcycle gang war.

Beaudry suddenly finds himself on a hit list, and strange but related clues seem to connect both cases.

It's an eerie puzzle with a missing part, nothing fits together. When it finally does, it's a surprise ending.