 Dr. Peter Carey is a pathologist at a Boston hospital. The daughter of the hospital s Chief of Staff dies after an illegal abortion goes wrong, and Carey s friend and colleague Dr. David Tao is accused of performing the abortion. Carey doesn t buy it, and so he digs deeper, angering the girl s father in the process. Questions abound: Who performed the abortion? Was the girl really pregnant? And what does it have to do with stolen morphine, blackmail attempts, and a mysterious and dangerous masseur?