In an small industrial town in Massachusetts, PI Alex Rasmussen probes the death of a Cambodian immigrant involved in jade smuggling. The story takes place amid a clash of cultures between immigrants and Yankees.

Private investigator Alex Rasmussen has loved carnivals since he was a boy, and what better way to enjoy one as a grown man than with a lovely woman at his side? As he and his date stroll along the midway, playing games of chance, the soft September night is torn by a scream. Rasmussen rushes to a nearby field to find a woman's body in the weeds. One of the carnival workers---a man with trouble in his past and a motive for murder---is arrested and...