Warning. This isn't your typical cozy mystery. There's a splotch of blood, a dab of sex, and a touch of off-color language.

Davenport, Iowa. 1906. Dead bodies are piling up in Fairmount Cemetery at the rate of one per week, and the police seemingly wash their hands of the investigation, saying the killer fled the country.

Everyone assumes the killer got away with murder until novelist Alice French and her partner, Jenny Crawford, take up the killer’s trail. The investigation takes the amateur sleuths through the city’s underbelly—visiting saloons, bawdy houses, and uncounted disreputable characters.

Can they solve the case, or will they fall victim to the cemetery murderer?