A series of bizarre and unsolved murders in a small rural town has left the local police mystified. They suspect a connection between these crimes and the dark underworld of the internet. Only slowly does the mystery begin to unravel, and in this process involves a Catholic priest of Irish and Jewish background, a sixteen-year-old girl who is a devout Sikh, and the photograph of a 700-year-old statue of Eve cuddling her pet dragon. The investigation of the crimes leads the reader into a reflection on the nature of evil, and each person's complicity in this evil.