Murder seems to hound Wolf Mallory, so why should a routine skptracing job be any different? It always seems to involve a woman. Wolf's old classmate, Chicago PI Allison Grimaldi, asks for Wolf's help finding a man and the Honda Civic he's driving for repossession. Easy money and a friendly favor soon turns into an investigation of the man's murder…and finding the man's mysterious female companion, who may now have the car and a whole lot of trouble on her hands.