Five days before Halloween, retiring Chief of Police Clyde Browning has two separate mysteries to deal with, the appearance of an amnesic woman who disappeared over twenty-eight years ago and the murders of prominent stakeholders in the community by a figure described by eye-witnesses as someone dressed like the Grim Reaper. Set on the beautiful Cape May, New Jersey shoreline, Browning must solve the murders of the present while coming to grips with the past before he becomes the next victim of the Grim Reaper.