In Western Ireland in 1979, Hazel Devereaux, a student of Trinity College in Dublin, goes missing while working at a summer job. Six months later her body is discovered in a shallow grave. A line from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe entitled "A Paean" is discovered in an envelope at the house Hazel was renting. Could this be a calling card of the murderer?Thirty years later, Detective Ray Logue discovers that a series of murders in Boston appear to be connected...