Julia Randall, a fashion model at the height of her career, is found dead in her bathtub. To the Homicide squad it looks like a society-type suicide—another glamorous life cut short by the victim's own hand. But coroner Malcolm "Mal" Carruthers isn't convinced. Detectives Cole Phelps and Roy Earle take the case, digging through Miss Randall's world of vices, secrets, and connections to find out what really ended her life.