Homicide Detective Laconia Jones does not believe in coincidences. Especially when it comes to witnesses having accidental deaths shortly before they are to testify. When he learns that the primary witness in a murder case has died he immediately takes over the investigation. In what Meanwhile Attorney John Abel takes on the defense of the richest woman in Hardin County whose daughter wishes to have her declared incompetent. At the intersection of crime and insanity strange things happen. This is the seventh John Abel mystery and the fourth book in he Prosecutor Quartet.