Hobart Lindsey is a quiet man, a bachelor living with his widowed mother in the suburbs and working as an insurance claims agent. Marvia Plum is a tough, savvy, street-smart cop. Then fate throws the unlikely pair together. A burglary at a vintage comic book store leads to a huge insurance claim that Lindsey must investigate for his company - and to the brutal murder of the store owner, for which Marvia must find the killer. Lindsey and Plum, like oil and water - but working together to unravel a baffling mystery!