When the cousin of Los Angeles underworld figure Hugo pool is found shot to death in his Portland Oregon home please find nothing at the scene with a crime except several long strings of blonde hair, Hinton that a second victim may have been evolved. Hotel security tapes from the victims last vacation reveal an out of focus picture of a young blonde woman internally than the room. Could she also be a murder victim? Portland homicide detective Catherine Hobbs is determined to solve the case and locate them as some blonde, but her feelings, and investigation, are complicated when Hugo hires private detective Joe Pitt to perform a parallel investigation. As Joe and Catherine Foreman unease alliance, the murder count Rises and both realize that the pretty young woman in the security takes is not a victim at all.