Deze serie volgt een formidabele privédetective, een voormalig lid van de Canadese special forces, wier scherpe instincten haar bekwaam maken in het ontdekken van bedrog. Ze vecht tegen haar persoonlijke demonen, waaronder alcoholisme, en leidt een eenzaam leven in het grimmige landschap van Vancouver. Wanneer een zaak haar echter dwingt haar eigen verborgen verleden onder ogen te zien tijdens de zoektocht naar een vermist meisje, wordt de jager de gejaagde. De verhalen bieden een meeslepende mix van psychologische diepgang, rauw realisme en een fel onafhankelijke vrouwelijke protagonist.
It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years--since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.( --Cover)
What happened to her father that made him kill himself and abandon Nora and her sister?Heading to Detroit to try and find some answers about his life there, Nora expects to discover a reason behind his suicide.
Find your enemy. Before he finds you. Nora Watts has a talent for seeing what lies beneath strangers' surfaces, and for knowing what they're working hard to keep hidden. Somehow, it's the people closest to her she has trouble truly connecting with. In the case of Bonnie, the teenage daughter Nora gave up for adoption, she has to keep trying. For Bonnie has a target on her back and it's all because of Nora. Two years ago, Bonnie was kidnapped by the wealthy Zhang family. Though Nora rescued her, she made a powerful enemy in Dao, a mysterious triad enforcer and former head of the Zhangs' private security. Now Dao is out for revenge, and she needs to track him down in order to keep herself and Bonnie safe. On Dao's trail, Nora forms an unlikely partnership with Bernard Lam, an eccentric playboy billionaire with his own mysterious grudge to bear, and reunites with Jon Brazuca, ex-cop turned private investigator and Nora's occasional ally. From Canada to southeast Asia they pursue Dao, uncovering a shadowy criminal cabal. But soon, the trail will lead full circle to Vancouver, the only home Nora's ever known, and right to the heart of her brutal past