If the child killed in the Majorcan car crash was not Anna Martinez then who was it? And more to the point, at least as far as her mother Patience Jameson is concerned, where is she? To find the answers, private eye Matt Bentley is hired and sent over to the popular holiday island. It does not take him long to get some answers and that brings Patience out to join him, to begin an adventure that takes them to the mainland and on a road trip throughout southern Spain.