Seventeen-year-old Tyne and her boyfriend Stick investigate a decades-old murder after she finds the body of a girl in the basement wall of her apartment building.

Tyne "Tiny" Greer is six foot six, a high school basketball star who is hoping the game will be her ticket out of the slum. She lives in a run-down building called The Zoo, where her father is the superintendent. After an earthquake she discovers a crack in the wall of an abandoned basement room... and sealed up in the wall is a girl's body. When her dad tells her she must be seeing things, Tyne finds evidence that the body was moved from the hole in the wall. What is her father hiding? And who is willing to do anything to keep her silent?