On the night before Halloween, a real-life nightmare unfolds as a young man is found clinging to life; the case takes a dark turn after Lt. Joe Kenda learns there's a second victim somewhere in the woods.

When 71-year-old Orville Head passes away, no one questions the death of an elderly man with health problems, then a tip comes in suggesting foul play, and Lieutenant Joe Kenda must exhume the deceased man's body to reveal the truth.