Detective Holly Gibney dreams of a vacation: she simply does not have the energy for a new case. However, when she hears a desperate plea in Penny Dahl's voice, Holly without hesitation agrees to help the woman in her search for her daughter.
Not far from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared, lives an elderly couple of professors - Rodney and Emily Harris. Respected, respectable, devoted to each other ... and also cunning and ruthless. The basement of their neat, book-filled house hides a terrible secret. If Holly makes a mistake, she will get to know this eerie place very closely ...
