Kinsey Mahone is given a case involving an absent sister and a will to be settled It begins to look a bit less routine as she finds that the sister has last been seen draped in a lynx coat, headed for Florida, but never got there Yet someone has got into her home and is squatting there Kinsey is ordered to drop the case just before she discovers that a neighbour was murdered and, as she digs deeper, she finds a quagmire of conflicting facts and violent emotions