Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case like a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shoreline of Lake First-class, a man named Vladimir Oleshev is available shot inactive, three holes in his head and heart, and even though nobody understands why he was killed, everybody – the neighborhood cops, the FBI, as well as the Russians themselves – has a theory. And when as it happens he had very high government connections, that’s when it about Hidden Victim hits the fan.’ A Russian cop flies in from Moscow, Davenport flies in from Minneapolis, law enforcement and press types swarm the crime scene – and, in the center of it all, there is certainly another murder. Is there a relationship between the two? What’s the Russian cop hiding from Davenport? Is certainly she – yes, it’s a female – a cop whatsoever? Why was the person shot with … fifty-year-old bullets? Before he can find the answers, Davenport will have to follow a path back again to another place, another period, and fight the shadows he discovers there – shadows that grow to be both very real and incredibly deadly.