A car bomb kills a New Orleans'' Port Commissioner, and a series of thefts from New Orleans'' famed above-ground cemeteries may be related to the crime. Especially when the thefts are accompanied by a disembodied arm at a family crypt, and a factory fire nearby-overtones of renewed Mob activity.
When FBI Art Crimes Agent Wynn Cabot takes a working vacation to join André Bishop, now a private investigator, in The Big Easy to investigate the cemetery thefts, she becomes embroiled in a series of murders that are no holiday.