Two people shot dead at a strip club in Miami Beach.  A few hours later, an explosion in a garage rocks a child's birthday party and burns a father of three to death.  The murders go unsolved and the fire is chalked up to an accident.

But was it an accident?  Twelve years later, a blonde walks in to the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad and complains that she's been seeing her husband everywhere she goes.  Trouble is, he's been dead for twelve years.  In Buchanan's characteristic voice, "Some guys just don't know when to let go."

As the four members of the Cold Case Squad unearth the details of the strip-club deaths and the dead or missing father - as well as the unsolved killings of a series of little old ladies - Edna Buchanan, the woman the Los Angeles Daily News calls the "Queen of crime," delivers unlikely killers, near-perfect murders, and her most suspenseful novel yet.