They'd been an odd couple, brought together by a murder investigation and discovering that they had an amazing chemistry ... Hobart Lindsey is a suburban, middle-class, conservative-minded claims adjuster and Marvia Plum is a tough city cop who has fought her way up from the street. But now the couple have split and gone their own ways, both pursuing a series of mysterious crimes. Then fate throws them together again, reuniting them at the scene of a lurid murder ...