Nick Coyne is Santa Fe PD's rock star crime scene investigator. While he has a pretty decent rate of solving most cases, when it comes to murder, he can solve them out of hand. It's as if he uses magic to find the most well-hidden evidence, uncover the most obscure suspect, and make the most hardened of suspects break in record time and confess to their kill. But what else is a medium supposed to do when the murder victim doesn't leave him alone until their murder is solved?