Detective Jay Singh is a newly minted Michigan State Police Detective assigned to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. When a murder victim is found in a nearby National Forest the case lands in his lap. Questions already swirled about his lack of experience and youth, now he must find a killer who has decades of professional experience. A killer who changes identities the way most people change socks. He is a ghost, a chameleon, who could be anyone and be anywhere. As the case unfolds Singh and his team discover they are in pursuit of a hitman that scares even those most hardened wise guys. A man that belongs to no one, a free agent the mobsters call "The Closer". The team must find him before he changes his identity again and disappears. They aren't just racing against the clock; they're racing against death. Death dispensed at the hands of a vicious killer, and they're running out of time. There's a clock on the wall and it says Twelve Past Dead.