Boston private detectives patrick kenzie and angela gennaro are hired to find four-year-old amanda mccready, abducted from her bed on a warm, summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely apathetic mother, her loving...Boston private detectives patrick kenzie and angela gennaro are hired to find four-year-old amanda mccready, abducted from her bed on a warm, summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely apathetic mother, her loving aunt and uncle, the mother's dangerous, drug-addled friends, and two cops who've found so many abused or dead children they May be too far over the edge to come back.