When a Manhattan heiress vanishes from her mansion, friends, staff and investigators are mystified; the investigation leads to a mysterious tenant who moved into the mansion weeks earlier and a transcontinental story of deceit, arson and murder.

Wealthy retired executive Ken Abbott and his wife, Celeste, are said to have died in a fiery car crash in New Jersey, but when the family can't get answers to simple questions about their deaths, police discover a gruesome crime motivated by greed.