They call him the Creep. He's savagely assaulted three victims, and Detectives Frank Vandegraf and Athena Pardo are working tirelessly to find him before he claims a fourth. Their search uncovers an exhausting trail of human misery: as one tragic individual puts it, sometimes life is just a different kind of dead. So when a journalist friend asks Frank to look into the accidental death of a tech executive, he only sees it as a needless distraction...