Burned out after a messy divorce and fifteen years of listening to sob stories, former New York City psychotherapist Janet Petrocelli has made a new, low-stress life for herself as a collectibles shop owner in the quiet Hudson Valley river town of Sawyersville.Unfortunately, Janet is a magnet for nut jobs. In this case, it's the Livingstons, an aristocratic family that has gone to seed in a disturbingly seedy way. When the elderly estate co-owner, Daphne Livingston, offers her prized heirlooms to Janet for a hasty sale, the seemingly simple deal morphs into a tangled web of insanity, greed and murder. Despite her resolve to steer clear of the murky depths of degeneracy and deceit, Janet becomes obsessed with finding justice for the dead ... if the killer doesn't find her first.
