Pam and Jerry North and Bill Weigand come together once more over a killing that comes at the end of Jerry's publishing party for an author. With Pam's truncated talking -- and thinking, Weigand's EJP recognition thereof, the course spreads out from a mid-town New York City hotel, to the Village, and the suburbs, and, in its spread, reveals buried pasts -- and troubled present. A brush-up for the North-oriented.