Description

For detective Dave Robicheaux, recollections -- including those of the chaotic and peculiar summer from his childhood -- are best left alone. But a dying man's confession causes Robicheaux to restore a decades-old puzzle with a lost lady at its center. Her name may or may not need been Ida Durbin, and Robicheaux's half-brother, Jimmie, settled a raw cost for entering her planet. Today the reality may dive Robicheaux into the manipulations of New Orleans' wealthiest household, into a complicated romance of their own, and into warm quest for a monster growing his place beyond the Big Easy in a scary speed.