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.