Detective Kenda finds the body of a bruised and battered young woman named Vicki Ross; strangled and left in the backseat of her own car. Kenda must sort through the endless suspicious characters in Vicki's past to find the elusive truth.

After church, Deacon Robert Walton is beaten to death in a public park; the case heats up when Lt. Joe Kenda and his team revisit an old friend with a secret.