For crappy Christmas presents, Detective Clarke Lantham figures most people couldn't beat getting thrown in an out-of-state jail on a trumped up charge. So when he calls up his brother for help with bail, he thinks he's prepared for the ordeal of spending a holiday weekend with relatives who put the "strange" back in "estranged.That was his first mistake. But with an old client gumming up the works, a ten-year-old niece with a ghost problem, and an occasional murder competing for his attention, it might not be his last.