When Maslow Atkins goes for a quick run and doesn't come back, April's usually flawless cop instincts tell her that he is alive. She orders a massive search using the city's best K-9 tracking unit, though it means going outside her jurisdiction and authority - and whipping the media into a frenzy. It takes the brutal murder of a witness for April's hunch to be believed . . . yet he still finds herself no closer to cracking what could be the most bizarre and disturbing crime spree she has ever faced.