Otis MacGregor faces a slew of troubles.

On his way to the Snizort river to do some fishing, he finds the body of a woman by the side of a loch. But having left his cell phone at home, he has no way of calling the police.

When a man suddenly appears out of nowhere, offers to call the police, and then disappears, Otis is strangely disconcerted. Who was that man? Was he the killer? If so, why did he stay near the body of his victim?

As MacLanahan and Nicholson investigate, they discover that passions swirled around the victim and that more than one man had a motive for killing her.