It concerns the murder of Missy Avila, in the San Fernando Valley region in Greater Los Angeles.

Kingsbury previously reported the Avila case for the Los Angeles Daily News.

[1] Richard Lee Colvin of the Los Angeles Times criticized the overly-done reconstructions of conversations, the use of an "annoying narrative device of short chapters in which no names are used", and the sections about the history of the San Fernando Valley.

"[1] Publishers Weekly criticized the book, calling it "unreliable", "superficial", "sensationalistic", and "a poor example of true-crime writing".

[2] In particular Publishers Weekly accused the author of blatantly trying to "idealize the Avila family".