In the middle of the night, librarian Carrie Singleton finds her dad, Jim, breaking into her cottage. He begs her to help him recover his half of a 20-million-dollar gem heist he pulled off with jeweler Benton Parr, but she refuses. When Parr is murdered, Jim is soon arrested. Determined to find the jewels herself, Carrie examines every facet of Parr's life, but in this follow-up to Death Overdue, they are concealed in a place very close to her, and lots of people are aggressively looking for them.