In the folklore of nearly every culture, a person who has died violently and whose body has not been found remains trapped between worlds. Until the body is located and laid to rest, the spirit will wander. In distress, a lost soul may now and then recruit some poor schlub, some ordinary Joe, to lead the search for the body.

Jared Vergilis, a Connecticut restaurateur, believes he was tapped for just such a task by the ghost of Jennifer Dulos, the beautiful 50-year-old New Canaan mother of five who was murdered by her estranged husband in her garage six years ago. Though the killer, Fotis Dulos, took his own life before he could be jailed, and though his accomplice, the paramour Michelle Troconis, has been tried and sentenced to 20 years, Jennifer’s body is still missing.