Detective Liam "Hound" Golding earned his nickname for his uncanny, almost canine instinct for tracking down criminals. Smart, tactical, and a bit unhinged in his relentless pursuit of justice, Liam was once at the top of a bustling city's detective force-until a series of controversial incidents led to his reassignment. Now stationed in the sleepy, deceptively quaint town of Raven's Hollow, he finds himself frustrated by mundane, "boring" cases that fail to ignite his once-ferocious investigative drive.
That is, until a pair of eerie cases involving high schoolers, strikingly similar in their mysterious circumstances, rekindles the dormant "hound dog" within him. With the stakes rising, Liam is forced to confront a darker undercurrent in Raven's Hollow. Assisting him is his devoted sidekick, Felix Rivers, whose admiration for Liam is as boundless as his determination. However, their efforts are constantly undermined by Lillian "Lily" Rivers, the cold, sharp-tongued forensic pathologist whose disdain for Liam is as legendary as her expertise.
As the investigation deepens, secrets long buried within the town begin to surface. In a place where every seemingly simple case hides layers of complexity, will Liam's instincts be enough to outsmart a cunning adversary, or will the haunting challenges of Raven's Hollow prove too much-even for a detective with the heart of a hound?