Investigator Dory Clarkson and Evangeline are visiting Voodoo village when a resident tells them her granddaughter, Zoé Canja, is missing. Zoé's dog, a Weimaraner nursing four pups, finds the young woman's body in a shallow grave. As Halloween approaches, Sheriff Bradley is running for reelection, and this case, complicated by Voodoo curses, could doom his campaign and put his staff in danger.