A murder at the Blue Dragon, a small apartment building in San Francisco's Chinatown, prompts the absentee owner to hire Chinese American Peter Strand to calm the anxious tenants. But Strand isn't exactly what he appears to be. Neither are the tenants, who on the surface seem to be regular people going about their lives. Strand, a forensic accountant by trade, doesn't intend to investigate the murder, but he soon realizes that this isn't a gang-related...

Hugh Dart has served his thirty-five years for murdering his wife. When he is released from prison he hires semi-reitred private detective Dietrich Shanahan to find her. Is the ex-con crazy? Or was he telling the truth, he didn't kill her?

Carly Paladino's first case on her own leads her to investigate the murder of a young daughter from an old and rich Pacific Heights family. When a mysterious young man is arrested for the murder, the detective digs in deeper as she believes the real murderer could be inside the family mansion.