A follow-up to The Royal Wulff Murders finds fly fisherman and private detective Sean Stranahan tackling two assignments including the theft of a valuable fly and the murders of two men who have been found on Sphinx Mountain, cases with possible ties to local superstitions and powerful adversaries.

Sheriff Martha Ettinger reunites with erstwhile lover and private detective Sean Stranahan to investigate the suspicious death of a woman whose demise may be linked to a local fly-fishing club and priceless collectibles believed to have once belonged to literary master Ernest Hemingway.