Four-year-old Amanda McCready is missing. Private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro take on the case. Who could have kidnapped the poor child—drug dealers who were deceived by Amanda’s reckless mother, or a terrible family of sadist pedophiles? The case turns out to be deadly dangerous; new and newer corpses appear. It looks like the detectives have stirred up a real snake nest. They can no longer trust anyone. Maybe even each other.