Divorced mother Gloria Sheppard juggles her demanding personal and professional life as an intuitive LAPD homicide detective while raising two boys, Leo and Nick, with the live-in help of her troubled younger brother Davey.
Michelle Dulcett is a detective with the LAPD. She brings much-needed balance to her partnership with Detective Gloria Sheppard.
Lieutenant Felix Valdez supervises the cases of Detectives Sheppard and Dulcett, and often brings brilliant solutions to the table in order to get Sheppard out of sticky situations with colleagues when it comes to her unorthodox methods of solving crimes.
Police Officer Ramon “Romeo” Rush frequently works alongside Detectives Sheppard and Dulcett on their cases. He has a flirty relationship with Dulcett, who often wonders why he never became a detective himself.