When 15 year old Tanya Grant reports a burglary to the police and claims the two youths are missing, the little old lady who answers the door with dozens of cats says there hasn't been a break in … but several other undesirable delinquents have disappeared in the same area. The police are quite independently investigating an apparently motiveless murder and the strange re-appearance of a business woman who has lost her memory and a lucrative IT contact during an inexplicable three week absence.
What do these event have in common? Neither DCI Millicent Hampshire nor DI Lucy Turner can see a connection, but the very psychic 16 year old Chelsey Bradon, her mongrel dog Scruffy and her 'uncle' Toby – the occultist Tobias N'Dibe – can. A fire, a runaway truck, several deaths and a couple of explosions later, Millicent and Lucy can too!