Bonnie Dahl is missing . . .Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is meant to be on leave. But she finds it impossible to turn down Bonnie's mother's desperate request for help.Then she discovers a single earring close to the location of Bonnie's abandoned bike.Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harbouring a savage secret in the basement of their book-lined home.Now Holly must summon all her formidable talents if she is to uncover the truth behind multiple disappearances in her Midwestern town.