Although they never meet face-to-face, chance events from their childhood propel Frank Noguchi and Bill Emmet toward each other, like two locomotives headed for a crash. The Cremation Murders introduces Captain Frank Noguchi, of the San Francisco Police, in the act of destroying a gang of bank robbers. Afterwards, Noguchi ends more than thirty years on the force and begins searching for the person who murdered his father, thirty-seven years before...