No good deed goes unpunished.

Ellison agreed to one afternoon of bridge, one favor for a woman whose husband is having a heart attack. She doesn't ask who else is playing. She should have.

When Lavinia Denton dies at the bridge table, Ellison is sure she's been murdered.

Ellison doesn't mean to investigate. Really, she doesn't. But people keep telling her things.

And all that information she didn't ask for? It just might get her killed.