It's just an ordinary day at the clinic until veterinarian and amateur sleuth Jennifer Gray takes a good look at the bone she has just removed from the throat of a local dog who had swallowed more than he could chew. The bone looks a lot like a finger bone, a human finger bone. Jennifer does a little bit of digging and uncovers a lot more than she expects to find. A long-forgotten missing person may no longer be quite so missing, and someone in town may have a very good reason to want Jennifer dead.