Mildred Dephane works the graveyard shift on a hospice ward. For nine years she has slept through the daylight to help people die well. But her newest patient shocks her awake. Failing, helpless, over a hundred years old, he reveals child murders that have gone unpunished for a lifetime. This is the title novella in a collection of stories that defy genre to explore crime, beauty, and horror up close, always with room left for a joke. Here we might meet anyone, or anything, whether gunman, ghost, or giant lobster, and never far from home.