Devil's Kitchen is about a Mexican American homicide detective named Manny Aguilar and his crazy Yaqui grandmother who gives him advice- even though she's dead-and his brainy pagan girlfriend, Reina, who keeps telling him to listen to his dead grandmother. When he gets fired for being in too many gunfights and goes to work as a private investigator for a smartass, pony-tailed criminal defense attorney named Jeff Goldman-and when a teenage female disappears-Manny Aguilar hooks up with another PI, Johnny Oaks, who specializes in finding runaways. These four underdogs-Manny, Oaks, Goldman and Reina, go up against the two most powerful forces in Arizona: land developers and Mexican drug lords.