My name is Minka Mayet, and I'm the Chief Medical Examiner in Copeland City.

I lead a team that specializes in the dead, and I work hand-in-hand with the precinct just down the street.

Never mind that I married one of their own—Detective Archer Malone, homicide cop and my partner in both crime scenes and life.

We wake up. Find the body. Solve the case. Go home and pretend we're normal.

But normal flies out the window when our latest John Doe shows up with no teeth, no fingerprints, no ID—and no eyes.

What he does have is a signature kill method straight out of a New York Mafia playbook.

The Malone playbook.

As in Felix Malone.

Archer's brother.

The one we don't talk about.

Now the past is clawing its way into my morgue, and Thanksgiving dinner just got a whole lot more complicated.