Tom Riordan is a decidedly eccentric man living in Excelsior, Minnesota. Known as Tom Take, after a character in an old Orphan Annie strip, he\"s sometimes seen digging through other people\"s trash. He takes on odd jobs around town and sometimes he\"ll disappear for several days or a week....

A young woman\"s body is found early one morning, floating in the therapy pool of a senior complex in Excelsior, Minnesota. No one can identify her -- and the doors leading to the pool are all locked and guarded by cameras, besides. How did she get in? Who is she? And, most important: who wanted her dead?...