Sheriff Ken Meltzer, from the small town of Whisper, finds the decomposing body of a girl deep in the Georgia forest. Next to her lies the skeletal remains of another girl. One victim has been there for sixty days, the other for ten years.
Drugs, theft and reckless speeders are the main worries in Meltzer's small rural county; homicide is not his speciality. So a friend in the Atlanta Police Department recommends a freelancer Meltzer has never heard of - former FBI profiler and private detective Keye Street...