V.I. Warshawksi’s second case involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder - this time the “accidental death” of Boom-Boom Warshawski an ex-hockey star and V.I.’s beloved cousin. Convinced that Boom-Boom was in fact killed because of information he had uncovered about criminal doings on the shipping lines V.I. begins a search for her cousin’s murderer. In the course of an investigation that takes her to a remote Canadian port city and a calamitous trip on a sabotaged freighter V.I. finds all too many possible candidates for the killer.

Part of the The V.I. Warshawski Series series.