When cynical private eye SJ Rook is hired to guard the set of a hot new television show filming on the streets of Harlem, he expects his toughest challenge to be corralling star-struck fans. The task is simple: keep peace between fancy Hollywood invaders, loudmouth tourists, and rowdy neighborhood regulars. The sultry presence of an A-list star lights up the set and inflames Rook's imagination. But the detective's brush with Hollywood glamor quickly turns dark. All week, a TV big shot bids for Rook's attention with outlandish claims of murder threats. Rook dismisses these fears as dramatic excess spiced with Left Coast dazzle. The father-daughter duo who run his tiny Harlem detective agency accept Rook's jaded assessment of the threat level. But on the last night of filming, murder writes a grim finale to the production. With his client dead, Rook's pursuit of the truth begins. Hampered by remorse, he battles a secretive killer whose motives are hidden in plain sight. After a second murder, Rook's hopes for solving the case are dashed. He must reset for take two of the murder investigation. But the tragic past of an alluring actress -- which includes a hidden death and her tangled racial origins --complicates Rook's hunt. Distracted by his own desires, the detective's struggle to sort fact from fantasy takes on deadly urgency when the killer makes Rook the last target.