Jasper "Jazz" Purcell, son of Lake Chinook's wealthiest and most famously eccentric family, has asked aspiring P.I. Jane kelly to help convince aging and increasingly senile Purcell matriarch Orchid to give up control of the family fortune. But Jane and her beloved pug, Binky, have barely crossed the threshold of the Purcells' creepy estate before Orchid turns up in a pool of blood. Suddenly Jane is waist-deep in ugly secrets and dealing with a clan so hostile they make Survivor look like a hug-fest. When a second body turns up, it seems weird city is about to get even weirder...and a lot more deadly...
