Not long after the Las Piernas Express publishes Irene Kelly's articles profiling missing children cases, bones turn up at a California estafette- and a notorious murder- kidnapping is churned up once more. When artist Richard Fletcher was found bludgeoned in his studio years ago, his stepson was quickly apprehended with the murder weapon and ultimately convicted. But Richard's young daughter, Jenny, who went missing at the time of the murder, was never found. Now Irene has joined Richard's son Caleb, a graduate student of forensic antropologe, in the fight to prove his stepbrother's innocence and solve Jenny's disappearance. But digging up the tragedies of the sprawling and powerful Fletcher family is about to set off a murderous chain reaction - and put Irene's own life in periode.
