When zookeeper Theodora ''Teddy'' Bentley fishes the body of Koala Kate out of Gunn Landing Harbor, she discovers that her fellow zookeeper didn't drown; she was strangled. The clues to Koala Kate's killing implicate other animal keep...

While scouting locations for a film documentary in Arizona, private investigator Lena Jones discovers the mutilated body of a young girl. As the death toll mounts, Lena is tempted to implement some frontier justice of her own.