Severed hands, five victims, one crime family, and an extra body.
Detective Rugbee's day started out like any other until the call came into dispatch about hands on the beach. He wasted no time in responding to the distress call. Upon his arrival, he found two men, one on the ground, unresponsive, lying next to fingers poking up from the sand.
The men are friends and have been for decades. Since retirement, they search for treasures on the beach. This morning, they found severed hands on a dune, and the finder had a heart attack. After Rugbee secured a ride to the hospital for the men, he returned to the scene.
There were three sets of hands, two males and one female. One of the female hands boasted a starfish tattoo in the webbing between the index finger and thumb. When Rugbee found out their fingerprints had been removed, he turned to the starfish tattoo. He would identify the girl by the tattoo.
As the investigation goes forward, more bodies turn up on the beach, but this time it was a plane crash. It claimed two people, a boy and a girl.
Once Rugbee and Bonner had IDs on the victims, Rugbee began the task of notifying families. That's when things went sideways. All five deceased people belonged to one family. Three kids from one brother and two from another.
The investigation doesn't end there. Hitmen arrive in town with one objective, and that is to finish what they started. That puts Rugbee and Bonner in the crosshairs, along with the brothers.
Rugbee and Bonner fight to control the situation until the last piece of the puzzle falls into place and it's something no one expected.
