Evie, five months pregnant, comes home to find her husband shot dead in front of his computer. She picks up the gun and fires it into his computer as the police arrive. She is arrested for his murder and says nothing to defend herself. Detective D.D. Warren is called to the scene; she remembers Evie from a case years before, when the girl shot her father at point blank range with a shotgun. It was ruled a terrible accident, but now D.D. wonders. At the same time, Flora Dane, D.D.’s informant and former kidnap victim, recognizes Evie’s husband as a man her former captor tried to sell her to. As always, Gardner throws a ton of red herrings at readers, keeping them on their toes until the last page is turned