Carlotta Carlyle, the gutsy six-foot, red-haired taxi-driving private investigator, is catapulted into a new case as she searches for the truth about the disappearance of a brilliant, precocious young author. Thea Janis vanished more than twenty years ago, only weeks after her stunning debut novel propelled her into the spotlight. Then an inflammatory new manuscript arrives, a manuscript that could only have been written by Thea. But a madman has been convicted of her murder, and a white marble headstone marks her grave. And someone is playing deadly games, blackmailing Thea's powerful family chapter by chapter. Carlotta must uncover some dark secrets as well as confronting a few demons of her own as what seemed like a cold case hots up . . .