When dancer Lara Trudeau drops dead of a heart attack brought on by a lethal combination of booze and pills, former private investigator Quinn O'Casey sees a simple case of death by misadventure. But when his brother Doug, a Miami-Dade patrolman, asks for help, he can't refuse. Despite Quinn's lack of interest in the case and even less in dancing, experience has taught him not to count on the obvious when it comes to murder.