Mystery is in Herculeah Jones's blood. How could it not be, with a father on the police force and a mother running a private eye business? And how could Herculeah resist the strange case of "Dead Oaks"? The derelict estate is a local legend, a place of murder, insanity, and an unsolved disappearance. Now history could be repeating itself, unless Herculeah can crack the case.
But first she has to get her parents to crack. Why is her father patrolling the grounds of Dead Oaks? And what does her mother's new client, a hulking creature who looks like an escapee from a zombie movie, have to do with it?