My wife's, Karen, first murder mystery. A young woman trips over a hand of a corpse buried in the sand of a Gulf Shores, Alabama beach. Together with a former N.O.P.D. detective turned genealogist, they unravel the secrets of the widow's life connected through her scandalous husband's history and discover some mysterious ties to organize crime in New Orleans. Who was Benny Looter? Why was his wife killed?