It is the middle of the night when pathologist Toni Day receives a call

from the coroner informing her that the notoriously sleazy local attorney,

Jay Braithwaite Burke, has just been found dead in his Mercedes in

the middle of a snowy interstate. Unfortunately, everyone at Perrine

Memorial Hospital where Toni works knows Burke. Over the years,

he managed to talk nearly the entire medical staff into investing into

his hedge fund. After it was revealed they had all foolishly invested

in a Ponzi scheme, the feds moved in and he disappeared. Now, two

months later, Toni is about to perform his autopsy.

It is no secret around town that many might have wished the attorney

dead, including Toni and her husband, Hal. As she delves into Burke's

autopsy, Toni already knows they have few clues to go on; when she learns

the man bled to death, she suspects it was a homicide. To complicate

matters further, Burke's partner also dies in suspicious circumstances, and

Burke's widow and children are left homeless by a series of house fires.

With a brutal schedule and doubts about her husband's faithfulness,

Toni's life is already complex enough.

But when a mysterious illness casts a bloody pall over the holiday season,

Toni must rely on her pathological expertise to unmask a killer and

rescue herself and everyone she loves from a bloody death.