Dana Leoni is Capponi’s heroine, a traumatized woman who hasretreated from life to a rough rooming house. Surrounded by the marginalized andthe mad, she is devastated when one of her housemates turns up dead. When,despite the disappearance of another neighbourhood woman, the police reach adead end, Dana and her rag-tag posse of housemates—inspired by the novels ofJanet Evanovich—decide to go detective and take matters into their own hands.