 Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh is a forensic pathologist who lost her job with the Boston medical examiner s office because her passion for solving homicides frequently extended beyond the autopsy table. Years later, an old ally rescues Jordan from court-ordered anger management training in Los Angeles and rehires her to her former job in Boston. Jordan is still feisty and mercurial and a pain in the butt, but management tolerates her because she is good at her job. She and her father, a disgraced former Boston police detective, often solve crimes together by using a role-playing game they ve played since Jordan s childhood. It goes: "You be the killer, and I ll be the victim and we ll figure out how this happened." The driving force in Jordan s life and career is the crime she took the longest time to solve -- her mother s murder.