Nothing much happens in the small coastal town of Rocky Harbor, and rookie officer Izzy Santos wishes her job was a little more exciting than handing out speeding tickets and removing an azaleas-eating turtle from an old lady's yard. Then she gets a call to follow up on a report about a missing young woman. The town's senior investigator is out sick and Izzy finds herself not only tracking down leads about the missing young woman, but is called to investigate a second missing person.

With the clues piling on top of each other, Izzy has to overcome her law enforcement inexperience fast. Fortunately, she has a secret weapon up her sleeve?her Aunt Maggie, a closet psychic who reluctantly agrees to help with the investigation.

Dead Woman Walking takes Officer Izzy and the readers on a journey through a tangle of disconnected clues that Izzy has to somehow tie together before the perpetrator strikes again.