In July of 2010, Peter Vadas and his sister, Debbie Levison, discovered that the man hired to do pre-season repairs on the family's summer cottage in Muskoka, Ontario, had murdered his girlfriend and buried her in the cottage's crawlspace. Throughout the course of this gripping true-crime debut, the investigation, trial, and ultimate conviction of the killer triggers Debbie's memories of growing up as the child of displaced Holocaust survivors, spurring her to examine how violence affects the texture of relationships and amplifies the echoes of other, earlier crimes, no matter how long ago or how far from home.