Seeking revitalization after the painful breakup of her 20-year marriage, an American woman tours Norway’s fjords with her cousin, a veteran Norwegian journalist. The trip turns into a nightmare when the journalist is found dead at the bottom of Hidden Falls. Authorities conclude the death was accidental, but the American’s gut feelings tell her otherwise. In the tradition of Agatha Christie, the protagonist begins a personal search for the truth. Discoveries of the late journalist's opinionated columns, her private ghosts from the Nazi occupation of Norway in her youth, and her post-war years in England lead her inquisitive cousin down a rocky trail of danger and romance and into the throes of a clandestine plot and soul-searching questions about justice.