Carol has written a book about one of her previous adventures, but several publishers have rejected it and her enthusiasm is starting to fade.

Her hopes are briefly revived when a publisher who had recently rejected the book sends her an SMS asking to meet. He is not interested in her writing, but in her ability to find missing persons. He wants to hire her to locate a missing eccentric author.

It quickly becomes clear that this is not an ordinary missing person case. The author’s wife was murdered six years ago, and just before his disappearance, a young woman was found murdered with pages from the author’s latest book stuffed into her mouth.