The end to Chief Joe Novelli's case is coming to a close. But not the way he wanted. A killer has not only revealed it's identity but who the next intended victim is. Someone close to Chief of Police Joe Novelli is about to die unless he can find a way to stop them.

Years ago Constance's father decided she ought to marry Quintin McCord. The sports fisherman/ex-lawyer could take care of her he said. But now Constance has met the man of her dream, the Chief of Police Joe Novelli. The only problem is they're both married, and it gets more complicated when murders start happening on the beach across from the island she shares with her husband.

Joe Novelli has his hands full trying to figure out who killed a girl out on the beach. And when he thinks his job can't get any harder someone vandalizes his office and then a cop from New York shows up expressing to him that she can do his job better than him. Or so she thinks. Then to top things off there's another murder.

Lt. Novelli's been shot. The only clue is the name of a woman named Shirley. But who is this Shirley? With no prints on the stolen car that was used in the shooting and no weapon, things are looking bleak. Luckily a news team was on the scene when the shooting occurred. But when a fire results in the death of two people, and the same news team is on the scene there may be more to it than luck.

Det.Shay McBride arrives on the scene to find Hanna Hoyt, raped and tied. Her roommate Marian Wait's missing. But Marian isn't the only college girl missing. Jayne Sander's has been missing for a couple of weeks. Lt. Joe Novelli gets called to a homicide of a young woman found dead behind a store. Do these missing college girls and the rape have a closer connection than Hanna's willing to tell.

Detective Gregg Sweet is found with a bullet in his head, assassin style. The newest detective on the department had found him a new girlfriend, Susan Bolin. But while his Rolls Royce affair of diamonds and money was spinning in his head, Susan wasn't free from a rich husband, who may not have been as thrill over her new love as she was.

Roxy loves her horse and Joey, her brother's star basketball friend. Rob wants a scholarship to college for basketball like Joey. But Roxy and Rob's parents have strict control. No dating and coming home to chores and working in their dad's garage is foremost. This strict control and two teenagers want of freedom will end in disaster for one of them.

Margie Portman and her daughter, Tisha are found murdered. Tisha's best friend, Cheryl has been sexually assaulted and stabbed but she's still alive. Having returned from a Horrorcore concert, Lt. Joe Novelli has to determine if someone from the concert had anything to do with the murders or if it was someone closer to the victims. It's a twist that even will surprise Novelli.

Chris Blaskovich has been murdered. Everyone says he was a good guy, he didn't have any enemies, although he and his wife were at odds. His wife has the perfect alibi, she was out of town. But everything points to her being involved in his murder. It will take some inventive police work to catch this killer.

Jessica Spain didn't come home after going to a movie with her friends. After interviewing Jessica's boyfriend, who says he took her home, Lt. Joe Novelli brings in a K-9 unit which tracks her to a neighbor's house. Taped up and found in a closet, Stan Shawl is arrested for abduction and rape. Shawl claims that it wasn't him but his twin brother Ed. Both men have the same DNA. Which one did it?