Bartender and amateur sleuth Neal Humphrey has a knack for finding dead bodies. While spending a quiet summer morning fishing, he discovers a body by the river. After the dying man utters a mysterious final word, Humphrey meets a stranger at the bar, an alluring redheaded woman who begs him for help. But no sooner has Humphrey agreed to help than she disappears, leaving him with a mess of murder and mayhem, including a diamond heist, a depressed filmmaker, an old fishing cabin, and a private eye named Tanner Redhill.