This is the third "Hidden Manhattan" mystery. Sanitation worker Garry Thomason runs behind Manhattan's New Amsterdam Mews one morning to collect the trash...and vanishes. The next morning he's found in the middle of the mews, brutally murdered. When Garry's boss, New York's Department of Sanitation supervisor Anna Winthrop begins to investigate, she uncovers Garry's startling secret past involving shoplifting, drug-dealing, and a deadly episode from his tour in Iraq. Then more people are found dead - a pretty daycare worker, a respected professor, a medical student - all left in hidden mews around the city. As Anna works to expose this 'Mews Murderer' she herself becomes a target. For this coldblooded killer will do anything to escape detection - and to hide a shocking secret from his own past.