For Detective Dave Robicheaux, memories of a strange and violent summer from his youth are best left alone.
Now the truth will plunge Robicheaux into the manipulations of New Orleans\' wealthiest family, into a complex love affair of his own, and into.
Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin, and Robicheaux\'s half-brother, Jimmie, paid a brutal price for entering her world.
But a dying man\'s confession forces Robicheaux to resurrect a decades-old mystery with a missing woman at its heart.
For Detective Dave Robicheaux, memories of a strange and violent summer from his youth are best left alone