Randall Haight is a convicted murderer, a man with the blood of a young girl on his hands. He had built a new life for himself in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but someone has discovered the truth about him. He is receiving anonymously sent reminders of his crime. He asks private detective Charlie Parker to make the letters go away, but another girl has gone missing, and her family has its own secrets to protect. Parker must unravel a twisted history of violence and deceit involving the police and the FBI, a doomed mobster and his enemies, and Randall Haight himself, who is also telling lies.