Florida attorney Lillian Belle Cleary talks tough, loves tofu, fears toxins, and obsessively hates a mess. Having to deal with a psychic client and a Nazi neighbor is bad enough. Now she's got two dead bodies cluttering up her life -- one mired in the Sarasota swamplands, and another mauled by a vineyard harvesting machine. But it's the not-so-shocking murder of one of her firm's most hated partners that really gets her pro-active.

The cops think she's hiding something -- or worse -- so Lilly figures it's up to her to find the root that connects a trio of corpses, and to pick a murderer out of a healthy crop of wacko suspects. But her investigative endeavors may end up bearing very bitter fruit indeed, now that a deadly human predator is moving in for the kill.