Crooked Bay is a quiet little town on the west coast of Newfoundland. It is basically made up of a bunch of little houses, two churches, a Reserve and an RCMP outpost. When the fishing and logging industries quit decades ago, a lot of people moved out. And then the Lucky Strike Mining Company found gold in the region bringing a lot of people back in looking for work. Sergeant Brett Wilson thinks that an economic boom is not necessarily a good thing for a little town. The police department, with only three officers, already has its hands full trying to keep up with the abuse in a seniors' home, poachers on The Reserve, teenage drunkenness, a car theft and the usual break and entry. What they don't need now is the town's first murder! Which is exactly what they get! A teenager, recently released from juvenile detention, is accused... except that he didn't do it! The real killer hides behind a mask of respectability. Will the real killer be brought to justice?