Would-be district attorney Richard Cotton has hired private detective Neal Rafferty to keep tabs on his wife. His wife, Paula Cotton, has hired the cool and classy Lee Diamond to keep tabs on her husband. It's almost Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and when the masks go on they hide a multitude of sins - like bribery, corruption, and drug-running, not to mention Richard Cotton's particular secret. And when the bodies start showing up, Rafferty realizes...

Nothing is what it seems in New Orleans, but this murder was one for the books... two books to be exact; a missing set of William Blake rarities - and street-smart detective Neal Rafferty has been hired to find them. Instead, what he finds is the body of a rare book dealer and a growing list of females - each with a pretty good reason to do him in. There's his all too ready to confess wife, his unhappy, illegitimate daughter, and the beautiful, sensual...