Sugar Skull

LA TIMES reporter Eve Diamond is taking a weekend break when she gets a call from a distraught father. His fifteen-year-old daughter, Isabel, has disappeared, and the cops won't look for her until forty-eight hours have passed. The man thinks his daughter might be with some runaways in a dismal squat in East Hollywood. Eve senses a possible story, but before she can interview Isabel, the missing girl is dead - her body concealed in a derelict basement. Eve still has many questions, but powerful forces want her off the story and she finds that nothing is quite what it seems...