Summertime in Chicago. The heat is on - in more ways than one. Homicide detectives Lora Cannan and Doug Pope catch a grizzly triple homicide.Three wealthy teenagers, strangled, almost decapitated by some kind of . . . something. Their bodies have been dumped in the South Side, where gangs, drugs, and drive-by shootings are the norm. But these teens don't belong there. They're from high-dollar upscale neighborhoods in the north end of the city.They reek money.
In the coming days more bodies are found, all teens from wealthy neighborhoods; all dumped in South Side locations. No evidence or DNA is left behind, no clues as to who is responsible.
Cops know a serial killer is at play. But in Lora's search to find the killer, she has no idea just how close that playground really is.