An unsolved murder. A missing detective. Inexplicable clues. All in a town with too many secrets.
A detective with a lot of enemies goes missing just as he's solved the case, and it is up to his new newly-hired assistants to try to figure out where the detective left off. They need to solve the mystery before they end up like their detective employer.
The town of Baneridge has no shortage of suspicious people, and the hospital in the very heart of the town seems central to everything.
The assistants – Malcolm and Mary – have their own conflicts and inner demons to overcome as they are driven to their breaking points by a citizenry determined to drive them out of town.
The only people they can trust are a 12-year-old boy with a disability and an institutionalized mute who is in a world of her own. Both hold some of the puzzle pieces, but most of the clues don't make sense... and shouldn't even be possible.