A gruesome murder is the first major crime that recently promoted Sergeant of Detectives Madeleine Axford must investigate. Despite what seems to be an obviously open-and-shut case, she confronts the universal puzzle: What appears to be, is not necessarily so. This conflict of appearance versus reality spreads until it involves not only the team examining the murder, but also Clara, an eighty-seven years old Cree woman, and the local representatives...