Award winner Linda Barnes's dynamic private eye Carlotta Carlyle finds herself in an unusual role -- she's working on her own behalf. Private Eye Carlotta Carlyle is trying to figure out what her on-again-off-again boyfriend -- now her fiancé -- Sam Gianelli has done to earn himself a secret indictment for murder that's keeping him out of the country. Sure, it could be mob-related. After all, he's in the family. But Carlotta's not buying it. Sam's not talking, and neither is her old boss, police homicide chief Mooney.

In the meantime, a nervous bride who hired Carlotta to make sure her groom-to-be was being faithful ends up murdered. Not only did the victim use a phony identity, it turns out she was aware of Carlotta's relationship with Sam. So what does her mob-connected boyfriend have to do with a dead bride-to-be.