When P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney takes on Monica and Eleanor Levert as clients, she doesn’t have much hope of solving the case. The wealthy heiresses of Briarcliff in Natchez, MS, claim that a necklace worth four million dollars has been stolen, and they think that they can hurry the insurance payout if a reputable P.I. investigates. Sarah Booth has her doubts, and not just about the payout. All of the evidence suggests the sisters might be committing fraud.

Then, just when she begins to scratch the surface of the Levert family’s sordid past and the blood money that their wealth was founded upon, Monica goes missing. The police suspect that the heiresses are still playing games, and Eleanor isn’t doing anything to make them think any different. But how can she? If she says or does anything besides pass on the insurance money to the kidnappers, they’ll kill Monica.

With a family history that runs deep and dark and a twisting plot where no one is exactly what they seem, Sarah Booth is the Levert sisters’ best and only hope in the latest in Carolyn Haines sparkling southern mystery series.