Nola has no sooner retired to the Florida Keys, where she begins wto write a book about a cold case from her childhood and what she witnessed way back then, when a hot case lands on her dock. Before she bought her isolated house, which was on a remote part of the island, it had been vacant for years. Wildlife smugglers thought it was still empty and dumped a crate, labeled as containing cans of cola, onto the dock. But when Nola goes outside to investigate, the crate is naking noises that sound like cries or whimpers. Cans of cola just don't cry, though, and the crate contains a trafficked tiny baby chimpanzee!

Who is responsible for smuggling the poor chimp into Florida? How will these elusive criminals get caught? And on top of all else, can Nola solve that old cold case from when she was a kid that's been haunting her for fifty solid years?