Four-year-old Amanda McCready is missing. Private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro take on the investigation. Who could have kidnapped the unfortunate child: drug dealers who were deceived by Amanda's dissolute mother, or a creepy family of sadistic pedophiles? The case turns out to be deadly; more and more corpses appear in it. It looks like the detectives have stirred up a real nest of snakes. They can't trust anyone anymore. Perhaps even to each other.