Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation into her abduction the police have uncovered nothing. And as the Indian summer fades Amanda McCready stays gone - vanished so completely that she seems never to have existed. Then a second child disappears. Confronted with a police force seething with lethal secrets Kenzie and Gennaro soon discover that those who go looking for the missing may not come back alive.
