When Cate Kinkaid receives a frantic call about a triple homicide, she finds that the victims are not quite who she expects. Now she has a new rule to add to those she's learned in her short stint as an assistant private investigator: always find out if the victims actually have human DNA. Because these three do not. But who would shoot this nice lady's dolls? And then there's the startling discovery of another victim, who definitely does have human DNA...