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Recently engaged and deeply ensconced in her third year of surgical residency in Chicago, Emily Hartford gets a shock when she is called home to Freeport, Michigan, the small town she fled a decade ago after the death of her mother. Her estranged father, the local medical examiner, has had a massive heart attack. At the hospital, she finds her father in near total denial of the seriousness of his condition. He insists that the best thing Emily can do to help him is to take on the autopsy of a senator's teen daughter whose sudden, unexplained death has just rocked the sleepy town.

Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper. She doesn’t know the details of the event but remembers it as one of the few cases her deceased father never solved. On her thirtieth birthday, Solange opens a long-forgotten safe-deposit box and is entirely baffled by what she finds.

It’s been 12 years since Sandi Parkman went missing after being dropped off at home by her schoolmate, Nick Larson, now the Sheriff of Freeport, Michigan. When a construction crew unearths Sandi’s bones - along with Nick’s letterman jacket and one of his hairs - Nick becomes suspect number one in the murder.

July 1989, in a sleepy Michigan town, high school grad Nina Laramie heads out with her friends and is never seen alive again. Months later, her skeleton is found near a remote party spot in the forest. The ME determines Nina has been brutally raped and bludgeoned to death. Fear and anger ripple through this tight-knit community when the case goes cold. Thirty years later, Riley St. James, a Detroit PD assigned to Nina’s case, is determined to get her first big cold case win despite having a similar past to the victim.

Chicago surgeon Emily Hartford has never quite shaken off the dust of her hometown in Michigan. She may be a professional success and have a princely boyfriend in the Windy City, but she can’t seem to let go of being “the coroner’s daughter” from Freeport. Once again, she finds herself pulled back to her hometown when Jeremiah—the eleven-year-old son of her best friend, Jo—goes missing on the frigid shores of Lake Michigan.

Called in to investigate the body of a young mother found floating in a small Michigan lake, Freeport coroner Dr. Emily Hartford quickly determines that Samantha Browdey was murdered. Among the many questions circling this horrifying event is one that yanks hard on Emily’s heartstrings: Where is Samantha’s infant daughter? Working alongside police detective Isode Aditson, Emily becomes ferociously determined to find the missing baby, Brooklyn. At the same time, Emily’s longtime boyfriend Nick Larsen has reappeared—after being missing, presumed dead, for over a year. But Nick has changed.

Dr. Emily Hartford is called on to investigate the mysterious death of Ethan Quon, a young, rising star cellist found dead in a snowbank after a high school dance. After exhausting every corner and turning up empty-handed, Emily discovers an unsuspecting witness: Jace, a non-verbal autistic man, whom she believes has the key to solving the case.

La cirujana de Chicago Emily Hartford nunca ha podido sacudirse del todo el polvo de su ciudad natal en Michigan. Puede que sea una profesional exitosa y tenga un novio de ensueño en la Ciudad de los Vientos, pero parece que no puede dejar atrás su papel como “la hija del forense” de Freeport. Una vez más, se ve atraída de vuelta a su pueblo cuando Jeremiah—el hijo de once años de su mejor amiga, Jo—desaparece en las gélidas orillas del Lago Michigan.

La Dra. Emily Hartford está de regreso en Chicago, lista para seguir adelante y dejar el pasado atrás, hasta que una inesperada solicitud de ayuda la sumerge en una investigación—y en el camino de un asesino.

Llamada para investigar el cuerpo de una joven madre encontrada flotando en un pequeño lago de Michigan, la forense de Freeport, la Dra. Emily Hartford, determina rápidamente que Savannah Browdey fue asesinada. Entre las muchas preguntas que rodean este horrible suceso hay una que tira con fuerza de las fibras sensibles de Emily: ¿Dónde está la hija pequeña de Savannah? Trabajando junto al detective de policía Ishkode Aditson, Emily se vuelve ferozmente decidida a encontrar a la bebé desaparecida, Brooklyn.