Seattle Police Detective Riley Davis rescues a small boy when he bolts into the street in the popular Pike Place Market. Detective Davis meets the boy's mother, Jill Preston, Architect, and gets invited to a gala dinner where Jill, her ex-mother-in-law, her dead husband's mistress, and the city's elite gather. When one of the dinner guests is shot in the Market, Detective Davis finds himself investigating the beautiful Jill Preston for murder. Jill becomes the target of a murder attempt, and the detective turns his sleuthing skills toward other members of the socially prominent group at the dinner gala. Tensions from the dinner party spill over into the Pike Place Market with murders that grip the city and threaten the Market's patronage.