Episode 3: Depths (Silk and Smoke, #1)

The water was supposed to close the case. Instead, Jack Colder dives Harbor Six at night and finds a decoy body wearing the right palm and the wrong face. Somebody wanted the harbor, the Coast Guard, and Elena Hale to believe David Hale was already in a drawer. Somebody even weighted the corpse so it would stay where the cameras lost sight of it. Jack takes the dead man‘s hand anyway, makes a perfect underwater lift, and goes straight back to Elena‘s second yacht in the middle of a storm. She‘s waiting in nothing but a towel and an open safe. This time the vault isn‘t empty: passport, cash, a black unmarked phone, and a video file of Elena on the yacht the night her husband "tumbled." The clip proves Davos was on board, proves somebody edited the footage on the boat within minutes, and proves Elena is willing to use sex as shock absorption when her own image is used against her. Depths turns the case from Who went overboard? to Who is seeding bodies, copying fingerprints, and cutting Elena‘s tapes in real time. It‘s wet work, leverage, and very private payment ... and Jack still doesn‘t know which man actually died.