On the night of the fifth of July, in Red Wing, Minnesota, a boy smelled death in a cornfield off an abandoned farm. When the county deputy took a look, he found a body stuffed in a cistern. Then another. And another. By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, it was fifteen and counting, the victims killed over just as many summers, regular as clockwork. How could this happen in a town so small without anyone noticing? And with the latest victim only two weeks dead, Davenport knows the killer is still at work, still close by. Most likely someone the folks of Red Wing see every day. Won’t they be surprised.

7 月 5 日晚上，明尼蘇達紅翼鎮，一名男孩在廢棄農場的玉米田嗅到了死亡的氣息。紅翼鎮副警長到現場查看，他發現一具又一具塞在水槽中的屍體。盧卡斯戴文波特受託來到現場時，現場共計有 15 具屍體，而且數量還在增加中。這些受害者是在夏天遇害，受害者的增加頻率非常固定。在一個這麼小的城鎮當中，為什麼都沒有人發現此事？而最後一個受害者屍體顯示死者約在兩周前遇害，戴文波特清楚知道兇手還在附近。兇手有極大可能是紅翼鎮居民每天都會看到，真兇的身分將讓人感到訝異萬分……