Widowed Joanne Kilbourn is an expolice officer whose deceased husband Ian was the Ontario provincial Attorney General when he was murdered His murder was eventually solved six years after the incident After a stint as a criminology professor Joanne now works as the criminal and justice expert for a local television news show and as a college professor of journalism Her private life is going well as she has just started dating Tom Keaton her famous journalism school colleague who has just released his second popular nonfiction book stemming from an incident when two troubled youths terrorized him Joannes world is turned upside down when the School of Journalisms Dean Reed Gallagher is found dead in a seedy motel room with a pair of pantyhose tied around his neck Initially the death is thought to be accidental autoerotic asphyxiation But the police led by Detective Alex Emanuel
